is anyone else in the christmas spirits??

I'd love to love christmas and get in the christmassy mood but I don't see that happening until I have kids of my own. Then it'll be awesome.

 

I look forward to the opportunity of teaching my kids every day of their lives, including christmas

He/she/they will know what christmas actually means, no santa bs.

Now to find a woman who won't go nuts when I try to do the above LOL

 

Thats what my dad did...no santa, no easter bunny, no halloween, etc.

 

Do you think you are for the better because of it?

I was taught all of the above but was born with the abilty to see straight through such nonsense. I've always been able to see the "truth" of things before investigating. That said, its hard to lie to me without me recognizing it, very very hard.

I imagine not sending kids into a fantasy santa land when they are most impressionable will keep them from seeking that magic fantasy when they are older... at least thats what I've drawn from looking at others. The more kids buy into such nonsense, the more they seem to buy into ANY nonsense/they become gullible/they become weak minded.

Playing along with the holidays isn't so bad, but everyone needs to understand their true meaning and why they are continued. Most of the holidays that are big today are for commercial purposes.

 

Yeah I liked that he did it.

 

i like the smell of pine needles and people mellowing out, even if both of them seem to have somehow gotten forgotten. but those are what it was all about and ment to me, back when i was growing up. that and the pretty colored lights. back before we had computers, that was as close as most people got to the then science fictionie idea of them.

of course with my dad working for the railroad, in the 'towers' where he worked there were these track diagrams that were part of controlling the switches and signals that had colored lights on them too.

of the subject perhapse but another of the things i fell in love with at an early and formative age where my idea of what is cool partially came from.

but back to midwinter's eve. yah it's still about having made it half way through another winter and past another year. that people supposed to be mellowing out or at least pretending to.

it wasn't about religeon OR a retail shopping feeding frenzie EITHER ONE! it was about the mellowness and the smell of pine needles and snow on the ground, somewhere anyway, and being up in the hills it usually wasn't too far away, even if below 3,000 feet we didn't get all THAT much. up on top at 7,000 feet we'd get 20 feet of it! and we lived up there a couple of times too.

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no. doing it all the time would reduce it's effectiveness. it's just be a wash after a while. i can live with giving, celebrating my loved ones, etc. but there's a specific need in the dead of winter, when it's so dark, so cold, so miserable, that makes stringing up the light and baking the cookies valuable.

 

people cry. you dont know everyones lives man. shit happens.

dont judge and say its not ok to feel like shit, or to be mean, when you dont know whats happening in everyones lives.

were emotional creatures, yes, and we should FEEL what were feeling, and not tell yourself to suck it up when you want to cry, or to smile when you want to scream. Do what you want with your life. Just don't tell me whats ok and acceptable for mine.

 

I don't know what my problem is this year but I seem to be lacking the holiday spirit, not sure why. It could be because I've been quite busy with all of the cookie orders with my little baking business and haven't really had time to get everything accomplished shopping-wise yet (well, mostly, but not all!), but I don't know, I can't out my finger on it, I just feel "off". It makes me a little sad that I'm not feeling as excited this year.

Of course, I am definitely looking forward to seeing the kids open their gifts on Christmas morning!

 

Well, I've got plenty of Christmas decorations this year... plenty of Santa Clauses, Christmas tree ornaments... I got myself plenty of cd-s with Christmas carols. I used to feel like it was not really Christmas a few years ago, but now it's beginning to look good. Especially that most people we used to have to visit on Christmas day are gone. It was really tiring, we had to walk around the city all day and go to see this and that, I'm glad it's over. Now we only go to my grandma from my mother's side. At least we just stay in one place...