My parents moved away and I may have to spend Christmas alone

Hold on tight to your job! They are hard to come by nowadays. You can make a phone call to your family and hear them on Christams Day. I know that is not the same but at least you will not be unemplyed when new year arrives. You are lucky compared to many. Some of us don't have either a job or family that we can be with this Christmas as they passed on the year before

I actually only live six miles away from my immediate family, so there has never been a time that I haven't been able to spend Christmas with them. However, my extended family all lives in another state and I did have to miss Christmas with them one year when my daughter was small because I had to work on Christmas (I worked in the nursing field and the hospital is never closed). It was difficult for me to miss that time with my family, but it wasn't something that really made the holiday all that unbearable.

I did miss Christmas with my family one year. My family moved from Ohio to Illinois when I was about 12 years old there is about an 8 hour difference. My grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins all still lived in Ohio so every Christmas we would all go back the Ohio to spend the holiday with all of our family there. When I was 19 however, I was working a job and I could not go so my family went as they always did and I stayed behind. I worked on Christmas day and Christmas Eve so that other people could spend it with their family. My boyfriend at the time worked for the same place and we both worked, so we kept busy. Then we went to the midnight mass on Christmas Eve and I missed my family so much I could not stop crying. On Christmas day my boyfriend and I had Kentucky fried chicken for dinner because it was the closest we could get to a holiday dinner and one of the few places that was actually opened. The next year though I happily traveled back with my family to Ohio. We continued to do this until all of my grandparents passed away. I really miss those holidays back in Ohio, but now we have new traditions that I love as well with my own kids, my parents, my sister and her family, and my husband's family. It will be hard but don't give up your job, just be prepared to be with your family next year, you will certainly have earned it after working the holidays this year. Don't spend it alone though try to find some other folks to be with that can't be with their family either or some people that don't have any family.

Oh if you miss them so much and you know that you will get a job when you come back, then must go and be with the family for the christmas and new year. you will feel better too by the change in place..Thanks for sharing and have a wonderful day ahead. he change in place.