11-20-2013, 09:10 AM
dfiant1 Wrote:Christmas is for children, if I had kids I would get enourmous pleasure from watching the christmas eve anticipation and their little faces light up on christmas morning.Awww, D. Christmas could be for everyone, and I'm not even Christian.
But other than that it is just a normal day for me.
I'm glad we have traditions that remind us to come together with family and friends. To celebrate with the ones we care about in an extraordinary way -- beyond our day to day interactions. Of course we can do that any day of the year, but do we?
The commercialization of Christmas makes me sick. I still make most of the gifts I give, and if I don't have something by Christmas Eve, forget it. I am NOT going shopping with the lunatics out for the best deal. In my family we downplay the gift-giving and focus on having fun together. We cook, feast, drink, sing, laugh, play games, go for walks, cook and eat some more.
God bless us every one. (Did you know Tiny Tim was hung?)