Christmas Story

Thanksgiving should be the start of the new year. Where we recognize all that we’re grateful for, and we vow to hang on to what we have while we try to go one step further: to make it even better the next year!
It’s truly the most ‘genuine’ holiday of the year.
No one is trying to sell us anything, recruit us, or change us, at all. It’s just Us, appreciating each other. It’s how every year should begin.

New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, should be about repenting, and fixing. Not celebrating. It should be a ‘reminder day,’ like our Mom looking over our shoulder, telling us to behave!

There’s too much pressure to ‘quit this,’ ‘start that,’ ‘believe in him,’ ‘walk away from her’…on and on… how can anyone remain sane, beginning their year in this way??

And what does a Ball Dropping have to do with anything, anyway?
New Year’s Eve has become more about Two People, we know, than the start of our new lives!
Dick Clark and Ryan Seacrest! Come ON!
Do you agree?

Those of us that have multiple kids, at one point or another find ourselves PRAYING that the older ones will keep their little Mouths SHUT- if they ever decide to stop believing in the big guy in the red suit. Let the younger ones still dream of reindeer on the roof… although the fact that we’ve added to the anxiety levels in younger kids, is TERRIBLE! That threat of ‘naughty or nice’ is enough to send any youngster over the edge!
Those of us that have multiple kids, at one point or another find ourselves PRAYING that the older ones will keep their little Mouths SHUT- if they ever decide to stop believing in the big guy in the red suit. Let the younger ones still dream of reindeer on the roof… although the fact that we’ve added to the anxiety levels in younger kids, is TERRIBLE! That threat of ‘naughty or nice’ is enough to send any youngster over the edge!

If and When that ‘little one’ Stops believing… don’t know about you, but I’ve done the craziest things to keep the dream alive! One came home saying their best friend’s mom, insisted their was no Santa! My response was, “Honey, you have to feel SORRY for that MOM! Look at what she’s been MISSING!” My daughter’s head knodding in agreement all the while… We DO what we gotta’ Do.
This might explain what I’m trying to say, a little bit better…
SECRET SANTA

this one’s HOT!

A VERY HENDRIX CHRISTMAS

She is NOT a ‘happy camper’ and as a result is NOT very Pleasant! …