We are just a few days away from the Christmas holidays. As we all know, these are dates of family rejoicing where we always get together as a family to enjoy a nice dinner and watch the children enjoy their Christmas presents.

Last year I was not able to travel as I do every year, due to the pandemic. To visit our families, as we always make trips to spend Christmas or Christmas Eve with them for 3 or 4 days, first to Guárico and then to Ciudad Bolívar, then the following years we swapped trips. This is an example of what we do as a family, because in this city where I live with my wife and my two daughters, neither of us have any relatives.

In fact, it was not bad to stay for the first time in our home, the four of us, it was very nice and warm, we had a really good time. Now what are our plans for this Christmas that is already near, well this time I think the conditions are right for us to travel and God willing we will do it. What do we do to enjoy ourselves, we share Christmas dinner with the typical food of our country such as our Christmas dish: hallaca, pernil, ham bread, chicken salad, baked chicken or turkey, black cake or sweet milky cake, and we all sit down to eat.

It is common to exchange presents, on the morning of the 25th we wake up late and the children open their presents, and we continue to eat soup or parrilla which is roast meat for that day.

My Christmas dreams are to be able to hug my mother again and to be with my family, my brothers and nephews, to share with them their stories, their experiences, their jokes, to have dinner with them again and to enjoy the joy of being together. That is Christmas for me, family and sharing.

Then in that Christmas dream is also to be able to visit and share in my in-laws' house at the end of the year, where I am also immensely happy, it is a total happiness, because if my beloved wife is happy with her parents, brothers and nephews, then if she and my daughters are happy I will also be happy.

A Christmas dream can be many things for people, but without a doubt for me it is my happiness, my peace of mind knowing that my daughters and my wife are healthy, that we are together and that we have food on our table, and the same wish for our families. A Christmas dream is to know that I can come home and have a home to share my experiences.

A Christmas dream is to think that all my friends who are far away are well at home with their loved ones and that they can share with them this Christmas.

I hope that my Christmas dreams, which are great desires for good things, will be fulfilled, and my wife and I are working towards this, because we are realistic that this will not happen by itself, we have to put effort and effort into it, and this includes working to achieve it.