My Journey With Health And Fitness – A Christmas Blog

Ok, it is Christmas Day so no workouts. Seriously, I cancelled the alarms for the rest of the week and this morning slept in until 6:30am which for me is pretty impressive. We got up following some family traditions and opened our presents and stockings. We all had a great time and appreciated what we received.

This Christmas was hard for us. The hole in our hearts that was left by my brother has not in any way shrunk. As a matter of fact, just the other night my sister and I sat on the couch and started crying because we miss him so much and didn’t know how we would get through the holidays without him. That was even more poignant this morning when normally our tradition would be my brother passing out all of the gifts. My husband took over that role and while he was an excellent fill in it was not my brother.

Now please, don’t think this is a sad post because it isn’t. You see last night we had our annual Christmas house. We had several close friends that came by and frankly when I look at the ‘children’ who have been coming to our place Dec 24th for many years and realized they are now adults I just can’t think of where the time went. I got to do the 1st (of many) toast and when I ended it with ‘to Drew’ there were a lot of tears. That led to some conversations including learning how many of our friends think of my brother often. Some of them even keep his picture or the program from his service on display because that is how much he impacted their lives. He lives on because of the amazing memories they shared with us last night.

And so today, I look at his picture and think of how much I miss him. But I also think of this wonderful man who touched the hearts of so many people. I so hope that when my life is celebrated at Christmas it is with the same adulation and love. Merry Christmas everyone oh and yeah, ‘To Drew!’