Holiday Conclusions
Streets are getting busier, people walking the alleys fewer. Ahh, the signs that the holidays are almost over looms before me once again. The end of the holidays means the end of my week-long break and the start of my work again. More over, the end of the holidays is also the start of a new life, filled with more vigor, with more passion, and more drive to work, and live each day.
Every time the holidays are about to end, I always remember that first Holiday Break Jordan and I spent together. It was our first married year together. It was hard, yes, but it was the time that we tested ourselves, the time we knew we were never going to give up on each other.
I wasn’t the self-proclaimed super nanny at that time yet. Aside from my career as a nanny, I was taking on odd jobs, just to get us by. Jordan was doing his fair share of the work as well. We took on every available job offered to us. We knew marriage and starting a family was never easy, but we didn’t think it was that hard.
One Christmas evening, as Jordan and I are about to sleep after an exhausting day at work (yes, we had to work on Christmas Day), I slowly wept and cried on Jordan’s shoulders. He asked me why, and I told him that I wanted to give up, that I couldn’t live like this any longer.
There, I knew that I didn’t make a mistake when I exchanged vows to Jordan. He hugged me, and just whispered to me ‘We’ll get through this. We’ll work this out. As long as I live, I promise you, I will never ever let you, nor any of our children, grow hungry. That is a promise.’
Those words I kept in my heart. And as the holidays are about to end, I know that my dear Jordan has kept his promise to me.