Favorite Holiday Essay from Composition 1

I don't blog alot, but I thought this would be a fun way for me to expose my writing and creativity to the world.  This is actually an essay that I wrote for my composition 1 class when I first started college in 2009.

The assignment was to write an essay about our favorite holiday and why you chose that one.  Well, here it goes.  My favorite holiday is Christmas and was the Christmas of 2004 because that was the first holiday with my son.

Since my son was born in May of 2004, I was really excited for Christmas to come. I was still active duty Navy, stationed on the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) and we were heading to our homeport of San Diego, Ca.  After not seeing my wife and son for about 5 months, I knew it was going to be a new beginning as far as holidays.  The rest of 2004 flew by and before I knew it, I was packing my bags and ready to fly home to see my wife and baby boy.

My wife and I didn't have any family in Virginia at the time, but my mother-in-law lived only a few hours away in North Carolina.  We packed a couple of bags for us, enough baby clothes for a couple of days and we were off to North Carolina.  Oh yeah, I almost forgot the best part which is the presents for the baby.  We left from our little humble home in Hampton, Va on our first little road trip to Wilmington, NC to see the family and arrived at our destination by dinner time.

I remember waking up Christmas morning with my son, so you can imagine that it was quite early in the morning.  I looked out the back window of the house towards the golf course and didn't see a lot of snow. As long as the ground was white with a little snow, then it felt like Christmas because a brown Christmas is just not the same.  As everyone else started to wake up, my stepfather-in-law and I went outside to get some fresh air.  When we went back into the house, it was time to cook some homemade breakfast and when i mean homemade, I mean eggs, bacon, hash browns, toast, sausage and orange juice.

The morning went very quickly and we hadn't opened any presents yet, but that was because we were waiting until the evening.  Later that night we all walked to my stepbrother-in-laws house where we all met, had dinner and exchanged gifts.

This is one of my favorite holidays because it was my sons first Christmas and there are many more to come and now he has a little sister to share the holidays with which is so wonderful.  So this is short and swe