Jose who was 6 years old was so excited to see the big tree and my son Angel was a baby. I don't think he remembers that cold and exciting day for us. We went to New York on Christmas day after we opened all the gifts that we had under the tree.
We were excited because we took the train to New York and that was the first time I traveled on the train with my kids. Jose captured around everything with his video recorder. I could see his happiness from his eyes, and it made me feel super happy. Even know Angel was only a year old, he seemed interested. He didn't sleep at all on our way to New York he was staring at the lights.
That Christmas day, we also went to the M&M store to buy a few things because everything was so expensive. Also we went to Toys ’R' us and that store has a lot stuff to see on holidays. We ate the famous and big pizza that New York City has. We weren’t expecting to see my cousin over there, but I was surprised when I saw him walking with his family on the street. We went to Starbucks to drink something hot because it was really cold that day. We talked about our family because, it had been a lot of years without seen each other. What a really and nice surprise! I can say it was a real gift from God because my kids don't really know my family. Jose always asked me about my family and the only thing that I told him is that your grandparents are in heaven watching over us.
We have family in Puerto Rico. I told him one day we'll go to visit Puerto Rico so you can meet your father's family and also my family too. My family is smaller than his father's because, I don't really know all my mother's family, but I know one day I'm going to have the opportunity to know them and show them to my kids.
We had a great cold Christmas day at the Rockefeller Center. We will never forget that day. Specially, Jose because that day he met his new cousin. We drove all the way to my cousin's house for almost 6 hours. We went to his house to spend time together as a family.
The past two years we went for Thanksgiving. I drove to Rochester New York and I never want to do it again, for me was a crazy drive by myself back and forth and my kids were uncomfortable. But I did it to show Jose that we have family and we love each other, but sometimes it is hard to be together for different reasons. I'm sure that he will never forget about the long trip, I did it to see our family in Rochester New York. I'm thankful that we went that day to see the big tree in New York.
