January 4th 2020, I wrapped up attending my last Christmas party of the year. Due to schedules, we end up doing this party a little into January every year. At 35 years of age, I am still getting together with my grandmother, all my cousins, uncles, aunts, etc. for a big family Christmas party every year. It’s starting to become a pretty big event. I am one of the youngest cousins, the rest are having kids, marriages, one is a grandmother now. There are getting to be a lot of us these days. I can’t think of anything cooler than the fact that we are still getting together every year for Christmas, things have really gone on much longer than you would have thought they would.
Sometimes things go on longer than you would think they would. If you had asked my family 30 years ago if we would still be getting together like this, they would have probably said no. The truth is that as families get bigger, the logistics get to be a pain. It is a special luck, blessing, and magic that this is still happening. Sometimes these things start to have more value because they do go on longer. When we were kids we didn’t think much about getting together with everyone. I think it’s in the back of our minds every year now that it might be the last time we do this. I know I’m consciously thinking every time we do this that “Hey this is cool we’re doing this.” At some point things will change, and that’s ok, everything changes. Things didn’t change this year, and that’s a cool thing.
There is something cool about the fact that things haven’t changed and we have kept this good thing going longer than you would have thought. There are a lot of good things that can end up going longer than they should in our lives. I think if this starts to happen we would all be wise and happy to try and keep them going, maybe just one more time or one more year. I am lucky to have a few of those kinds of things in my life, big family Christmas parties is one of those things.