My parents are no longer here at Christmas. Here's what this 'Fox & Friends' co-host wants to share with you

My parents have really been on my mind this week. My mom left us on Christmas Day. I was never able to say a proper goodbye to either of them because they both died suddenly.

It was Christmas Eve 1997, I had just spoken to my mother on the phone for the umpteenth time about how to make her gravy. I started calling her in college, and continued for decades. I knew exactly how to make it, I was just using it as an excuse to call and show her that even though I was forty years old, a son always needs his mother.  In my heart I know this Christmas my mom is watching over me, and my dad is right beside her, he’s in his La-Z-Boy with a half-eaten bowl on ice cream on his chest as they watch one of their shoot-em-up shows.  Steve Doocy currently serves as co-host of FOX News Channel's (FNC) FOX & Friends (weekdays 6-9AM/ET) alongside Ainsley Earhardt and Brian Kilmeade. 

Eight hours later, my sister called, "Mom’s dead…" 

Two weeks after the funeral, I was back home in New Jersey. It was a Sunday morning and I was the lector for the 10 a.m. mass. They’d asked me if I wanted a substitute given what had happened, but I said no. I wanted to do it.