Do you have to work on Christmas
or on New Year’s Eve
or on some other special day?
You’re not alone.
Many of us need to work.
My mother was
a home care worker.
Elderly clients
still needed to be cared for
during the holiday.
Many years,
she didn’t have special days off.
So what we did
was have our special day
on a different date.
When we were kids,
we wrote Santa,
asking him to come on
the night of the 22nd
or on some other day
she wasn’t working.
(note: we always had our special day
BEFORE everyone else.
We were the envy of other kids
because we had Christmas early.)
These early special holidays
were usually more fun
than the holidays on the ‘right’ days
because other loved ones were free.
Aunties and uncles and friends
weren’t having special dinners
at their own houses.
They could attend ours.
Holidays aren’t about
a date on the calendar.
If you’re working on a holiday,
consider having it some other day.