This holiday season is certainly screaming right along! I'll bet the little kids and grand kids are finding it a little hard to sleep at night by this point. I remember being so excited for Santa to arrive, when I was very little, that I could hardly take a deep breath let alone sleep.
I saw this next picture and remembered being absolutely horrified at the thought of Mommy kissing Santa Claus! My Mom had to sit me down and assure me that she simply wouldn't do that - because she was married to Dad. Were you ever traumatized by anything to do with Christmas? Can you imagine me with that song, "Grandma got run over by a reindeer?" Eeek!
I have been really trying to muster some Christmas spirit this year but it just isn't surfacing. It's looking like this may be another year where I just try to "survive" the season.
Perhaps it's a good thing that we are getting away for a few days. At least when we are away, I can quit feeling all the "shoulds" of the season. You know what I mean...I should decorate, I should bake, I should make a nice holiday dinner, I should dress up on Christmas Day, I should enjoy my birthday and so on and so forth. This has been my least favorite month of my year all of my adult life! I wonder how many people really feel this way, but they put on a happy face for the sake of their children and grandchildren?
I would happily skip the whole darned month, and Larry and I have done so fairly frequently with our travels to all parts far away and warm! Maybe next year we'll be toasting ourselves on a beach somewhere. Cold, wet, miserable weather and a season fraught with expectations and disappointment are what you should get if you are on the naughty list...not if you've been good all year! LOL
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