FELIZ NAVIDAD

My son Alex came into the living room where I was sitting on the couch smiling as I looked at my phone.

“What has you so happy?” He asked as he came over to the couch and sat next to me.

“I just got an A on my first Spanish test!” I showed him the results on my phone. “Eleven questions and I got ten right!”

“That’s great!”

I shrugged my shoulders and laughed. “Honestly, I think I’m just a good guesser.”

“What makes you say that?”

I clicked back to the first test. “Here, why don’t you take it and see what grade you get?”

“I don’t speak Spanish.” Alex argued.

“Just take it. I bet you can get an A too.” I hit start. A woman said. “Blanco”

Alex looked at me. “Isn’t that white?”

I clicked on white and a green check mark appeared. “You’re right.”

I went to the next question. “Morado.”

Alex thought about it for a second. “I’m pretty sure that’s purple.”

I clicked on purple and the green check mark appeared again.

“See! You know your colors too!”

Alex laughed as he shrugged his shoulders. “I guess.”

“Exactly! You guessed too!” I started to laugh as I put the phone down on the coffee table and got up from the couch. “I think it’s time for me to get the Christmas decorations down from the attic. Can you get your Dad to help us?”

“Sure.”

I went into the hallway and pulled the attic stairs down. Climbing up I sat on the attic floor with my feet on the top rung of ladder.

A few moments later my husband Steven appeared in the hallway.

“Feliz Navidad!” I called down to him.

He looked over at Alex with a confused look on his face.

“Mom’s decided to learn Spanish.”

Steven looked back up at me. “Como estas?”

I looked over at Alex and shook my head. “I have no clue what he just asked.”

Alex shook his head. “You two are the ones wanting to learn Spanish. Not me.”

Steven laughed. “I asked how are you doing?”

“Clearly you’re further along in your Spanish lessons than I am!” I laughed. “I’m still learning my colors.” I had dragged one of the Christmas boxes to the edge and began lowering it down. “I’ll definitely be feeling better when I finish decorating the house.”

Steven had taken the box from me and was standing there holding it. “Which room do you want this one in?”

“The rojo one goes in the living room.” I called down as I crawled further into the attic to grab another box. Pulling it to the edge I began lowering it to Alex. “This verde one can go in the dining room.”

Steven was back at the base of the ladder. He was looking up and laughing. “So what other color boxes do you have up there?”

“Lucky for me I only packed in rojo and verde boxes for Navidad.” I looked over at Alex and smiled. “And with that I’m going to consider my first lesson a success!”