Christmas is coming! YAYYYY!!!!!

I love Christmas day. I'm soo exicited.

Isn't Christmas just great for reminding you what is important in life? And how blessed you really are? I love that. I swear sometimes, like Christmas, I can feel the complete beauty of the world around me all at once and it is those times that I breathe deepest and am the most thankful.


I know people tend to have a problem with the materialism of the holiday but i don't. I just spent all my money (some of it borrowed) to get my kids toys that are probably gonna be broken in a few short weeks......and I'd do it again. I'd give all I have to see the joy and wonder that adorns my babies' faces Christmas morning. I remember Christmas as a child. I felt loved by those gifts. Bad thing or not, I remember it as feeling special and pampered and protected. I knew I was loved every day of the year but on Christmas day I could hold it in my hand, see it with my eyes and it was reassuring. I am in no way saying that those that do not or cannot give to their children on Christmas do not love them just that in my thinking, as a child, i equated my happiness with toys. And my father giving me toys made my feel like he cared about my happiness.

Now I do the same for my kids because I want them too to feel like Mommy wants them to be happy as can be. My children do well in school (my oldest got straight A's this report card, YAYYY, Deja!), participate in activities, and ,because we are a single parent family, do their fair share of helping out around the house. So I feel like they should have a day or two that they are appreciated, doted on , and ,dare i say , spoiled. This all comes from a place in my heart that wants my love to live forever in their souls the way my father's lives in mine.

And if that's not a celebration of God, then I don't know what is.


so.......once again..


YAAYYYY!!!!! Christmas is coming


Everybody have a blessed and merry Christmas, whether you celebrate it or not

 

free stamps for everyone!

 

Merry Christmas, missfontella!!!

 

*shakes head*

luckily I'm too in the holiday spirit to care

 

me too

 

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE !​

And if you survive 'till 2005, ​

I hope you're exceedingly thin, ​

For if you are stout, ​

You will have to breathe out, ​

While the people around you breathe in. ​

 

i wanna be thin, but not EXCEEDINGLY thin

that sounds like it hurts

 

I've always been torn about christmas. Mainly because of my family life. My 2 brothers and I were never bad kids, but we were three boys so we fought a lot. And we fucked off too. Every year my mom pissed away sooooo much money on christmas. And would spend all november and december telling us, "If you fuckin kids don't start acting right, I'm taking it all back". Which makes me want to question whether or not I want to spoil my kids one day a year. In a way I do, I enjoy watching little ones unwrap their presents and get that glow about them when they see they got what they wanted. It's heartwarming. On the other hand, part of me would rather get them one or two things each at christmas and reward them throughout the year with gifts for good behaviour and grades etc. Also I feel that the second way they'd use the toys longer. I don't know about you guys, but when I got 10 toys that I wanted 7 of them sat in the closet while only the coolest ones got played with. Spreading the presents out through the year they'd get one cool thing each time, and then a couple on christmas. Something I'll have to figure out eventually, and I'll probably end up doing both.

 

i see your point

and i do try to do that to

But just remember Christmas being so special to me as a kid, I want them to have that

 

I understand where you're coming from, and I think I'll enjoy christmas more as a parent than I did as a child. After I turned 13 I started asking my mom for just one thing so she could get my brothers more. I've always liked watching people open presents better than opening them.

 

i agree with you missfontella... christmas was like that for me as a kid too.

even now, we dont have much money to buy gifts...but i still love giving them and opening them and seeing all my family and just being happy to be around all the people i love and care about.

it's great... this christmas is kinda hard for me to get excited about (because my legal problems...) but im gonna try to relax, be thankful for everything and have a great christmas anyways.

 

Christmas means so much to me too for many different reasons. I have wonderful memories of Christmas as a child. My Mom and Dad didn't have a whole lot of money but they put all of their heart into our Christmas. My brother and I could barely sleep through the night. We were so anxious and excited. It was a very happy time.

Now I am a Mom. My husband and I put everything we have into my boys Christmas. I want them to have the memories like I did and more for example one thing I remember that we didn't do as a child was bake cookies for Santa or make Gingerbread houses. Friday my house will smell like cookies. We did bake the Gingerbread house but we ate it all ready. lol

Funny, today my youngest son had a Christmas play at school. I video taped the entire play and all while I was taping I had tears in my eyes. I am so proud of my son, both my sons. I am so proud of the lil' people they have become.

Merry Christmas to you and your children Missfontella.

 

yay for presents and chocolate!! and dinner!!! woohoo!!!

 

that's so sweet of you to realize that single parent kids have to do more... I think your kids prob see that you have to do more too. My mom thought of it the same way you do and it made me feel way good to know that I had more responsibilities than most kids. yay for you and for your awesome sounding kids

 

ahhhh I finally got bit a little by the maternal bug on Sunday first time ever I knew I wanted to have a kids in the future...and you're not helping make it go away laura!

 

Enjoy that bug. Let it multiply. When your time comes to be a Mommy I know you will be a good one. I know you will have lots of love to give your lil' one(s).