My Christmas and New Year's celebrations were spent having family bonding time with cousins, aunts, and grandparents at their house, where they had talks and laughs together rather than extravagant games. In 2010, the family welcomed the new year in the hospital while watching over their sick grandfather, who was battling an unknown illness and passed away, but the writer was hopeful that 2010 would be a great year and that their grandfather did not truly leave them.