CANDLELIT CHRONICLES: HISTORIC HAUNTS

December 13, 2012_Holidays

Whoo! I survived 12-12-12 (there should be T-shirts for these events! I wanted to have T-shirts made earlier this year, but didn't get to:





Victoria Woodhull for President


1872


2012





and





Abraham Lincoln for President


1860


1864


2012





Pretty cool, eh?











December 13, 2012: Write about a holiday in which things just did not go as planned





I remember one Thanksgiving, I believe it was 1990: we lived for a time, my three children and I, in an older house, with a large dining room (where I used to study my Accounting homework). That Thanksgiving I decided to cook a big dinner, and invited my Mother, who was then 75 (my father had passed in 1989), but due to her long-term health concerns (she passed away in 2002), she was unable to attend. So here is this sizable dinner, with just my 14-year-old daughter, and my sons, 10 and 7. A lot of food.





Really, a lot of disappointment too, because as long as I can remember both Thanksgiving and Christmas have been really negative holidays for me, even when as a child I had lots of Christmas spirit and loved attending Midnight Mass. As an adult, Christmas was difficult as a single mom because I never felt I could properly provide. Christmas, Thanksgiving, and my birthday have always been events I’ve preferred to, or wished to, avoid.