Hi everyone! I hope you’re all well. Today is Wednesday, and it’s time for the next post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you’d like to participate in the challenge, you can find the topics for 2024 here, and if you want to read what others had to say on this week’s topic, you can do so here.
A Moment I Wish I Could Relive
Of all the moments from my life so far, there are many that I would love to go back and relive – too many really to list here, but I’ll share the one that seems to always be at the forefront of my mind.
Christmas Day 2007
Christmas Day 2007 was one of those days we all have at some point in our lives when we don’t realise how important it is until much later.
Christmas has always been important to my family. In fact, it’s my favourite time of the year.
I hold this particular day close to my heart because this was the last Christmas day my family was complete. Though we had no idea at that time, my dad had lung cancer that wouldn’t be diagnosed until July 2008. He had unknowingly been poorly with it for a long time, and he would be gone before the end of October that same year.
The following May (2009), my mum also died of lung cancer, and we never had a ‘normal’ Christmas again.
Of course, my family have had some lovely Christmases since then and a few more sad ones with missing loved ones. However, that one in 2007, in particular, changed everything for my siblings and me.
I wish I could go back and absorb every moment of the day, from my mum’s frustration at… well – everything – to my dad’s light snoring as he dozed in his chair after dinner, a little bit merry from his single glass of white wine.
I have those memories, but they’re dim and dimming ever more with each passing year. If I could go back and visit or relive that day, I would take in every last detail, imprint every blink, smile and snore my parents made on my brain and store every emotion I felt in my memory.
Well, this has been the fifteenth post in the weekly challenge! I’m looking forward to learning about all the moments in life you’d all like to relive.
As ever, thanks for stopping by and spending time with me today!
Until next time,
George
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GEORGE L THOMAS 
What a beautiful answer, George. I wish you could go back to that day, too.
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Thank you, Lydia!
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Oh, this nearly made me cry. I’m so sorry that you lost your parents (and the same way in such short order, that seems extra cruel). I can’t imagine how that feels. I think it’s so beautiful that you chose that last Christmas and that you now hold that so dear. I wish you were able to go back to that memory each year and spend one day with your whole family again.
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Thank you so much! I really appreciate this. If only time machines were real.
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What a nice memory. I would love to go back to the last Christmas I spent with my dad, too.
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Thank you, Tanith!
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