Merry Christmas
Coming down to the last week before Christmas. It’s a secular holiday in this household – more fun because of the music (I happen to really love Christmas Carols) and more fun to have an excuse to give presents to people. Of course it’d be more fun if they weren’t expecting these gifts, but a guy’s gotta go with his strengths.
Christmas puzzles me. For eleven months of the year we tell our kids not to be greedy and that we don’t have the money to spend on this trinket or that video game. But then, the last month of the year, we tell them to tell the world what great things they want. I’m sure it confuses them too. I wonder, though, what would happen if we established about a seventy dollar budget per month to buy trinkets and games throughout the year, and then downplayed the presents in December.
It also puzzles me because of the threats- “I’ll take back all your presents!” or “I’ll tell Santa you’ve been a bad kid!” (Never mind that he’s watching, and he knows if you’ve been bad or good.) Obviously the kids believe this, more or less, but why? I mean, we wouldn’t really take their presents back, would we?
I find myself, though excited, somewhat ambivalent about Christmas. I’m human, I’m allowed to have complex emotions. We have a gorgeous tree from Skyline Tree farm, some lovely presents under it. Some more presents in the mail.
I’m glad the kids will be having a great Christmas.
And I hope you have one too.
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