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For our Monday series "This I Believe", we invite you to submit / statements of personal conviction. Today it is one of the more than 20,000 we've received, it's from Melinda Shoaf,a homemaker and a mother of four from Memphis Tennessee. Here's our series curator, independent producer, Jay Alleson.

After last year's holiday season, Melinda Shoaf set down to write her essay for our series. We record it after this year's holiday, and she told us that her belief // has become all the more solid for having put it down in words the year before. Here's Melinda Shoaf with her essay for "This I Believe".

I believe that a few people in your family who arranged for and executed the celebration this past holiday season. Well, you probably still tired. You may be wondering why you spent so much on presents, why you had to have your house just ride, why you hit / friends over for drinks when you were already weary and wore out.You may be think you are getting too old for all of this. Or you may be thinking you are too young. If you know what I'm talking about, you're probably your family's designated celebrator, that is the one who sees to it, that holiday actually happens, in the lives of your loved ones. After New years, I was sitting the breakfast table/ in the Stuple. My husband asked if I was alright, I'm exhausted, I answered, I'm totally exhausted. He looked puzzled. Why do you do this to yourself every year? I have to admit the part of what I do around the winter holiday seems almost in voluntary in / eight. It seems if I'm driven by the ancient need to mark the darkness of winter with my little bit alight. My answer to my husband's question is that I believe / one of the most important things I can do while I am on this planet is honor those / I love through celebrations. And the older I get, the more I believe it. When my children were small, their father lost his job. It took a decade to recover emotionally and finacially. Hot water and electricity were luxuries that / weren't always available. Meals were challenge, I tried to had it from * but I was constantly afraid of losing our home. Those celebrations were so sparse, the future so uncertain, that the ground seemed to be shifting beneathers. So now celebrations mean that much more to me. This year I polished the silver, lit the candles, make sure Sprigs Holly was carefully tagged above every winter, I served at twelve dollar a bottle of wine instead of a seven dollar one. I bought lamp chops instead of a roast, little things, just so wit remember / this day, this night. I believe that in this world there is and always has been so much sadness and sorrow, so much uncertainty. That if we did not set time for merryment, gifts, music and laughter with family and friends, we might just forget to celebrate all toghter. We just plod along in life. I believe in the importance of celebrations. As my family's designated celebrator, I maybe tired, and I may not have done all that set out to do. But I believe that this year I celebrated the ones I love. And I hope with all my heart that I celebrated them well.

Melinda Shoaf with her essay for this I believe, as many essays as do, Melinda read / her essay first to her children. Her daughter said " Now I understand ." To contribute your statement to our series and to see what others have written, visit our website npr.org. For this I believe. I'm Jay Alleson.

Next Monday, on morning edition, a This I Believe essay from S Backy Hers, her husband is serving in Iraq.

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