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<blockquote data-quote="Shari" data-source="post: 223637" data-attributes="member: 1848"><p>It is wonderful to read this again, anyway. I am not alone in my feelings (as usual).</p><p>***</p><p>I used to love Christmas. But I am finding it more of a chore than a time to treasure.</p><p>***</p><p>At work, we host an open house. Some of the people in charge feel it won't be fun if there aren't multitudes of decorations and the kids don't have something to take home, yet are angry that more people don't help decorate or contribute money. Everyone is fighting over it. I take the "less is more" attitude, but generally stay out of it.</p><p>***</p><p>At home, I am trying to juggle finding time for our family to celebrate. We only have easy child 2 from 3-8pm on Christmas day. Two Brooms insists on having her Christmas celebration as she always has, at 4:30pm - right in the middle of the time we'll have easy child. She insists we eat dinner and open gifts one at a time, so it takes 2 or 3 hours. If we try to have Christmas at our house on Christmas day, we'll have to push the kids to open and run - which is SO against my belief that they should enjoy and appreciate, not shove it aside and dive into the next package. If we try to do it after, often, difficult child 2 is too tired to stay awake. I am NOT fighting to keep him awak this year.</p><p>***</p><p>So we will probably open gifts at our house on some random day other than Christmas. It makes me sad that I can't have the Christmas I want with my family while my kids are still little enough to enjoy the magic of it because Two Brooms won't accept the fact that her kids are 40 and the 'magic' years are gone.</p><p>***</p><p>I find that Santa is buying his gifts for difficult child with the purpose of giving wee difficult child plenty to do all day to make it thru the day. Even Santa's in survival mode this year.</p><p>***</p><p>Still, I am trying to be patient. We are making Buddy Packs for the food bank to help those in need. The spirit of the season is there; I want to enjoy it. I look forward to the time I will spend with my own family, and my ex-in-laws. I look forward to Christmas eve at home with wee difficult child, baking cookies for Santa, as always. But somehow, its just missing something for me this year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shari, post: 223637, member: 1848"] It is wonderful to read this again, anyway. I am not alone in my feelings (as usual). *** I used to love Christmas. But I am finding it more of a chore than a time to treasure. *** At work, we host an open house. Some of the people in charge feel it won't be fun if there aren't multitudes of decorations and the kids don't have something to take home, yet are angry that more people don't help decorate or contribute money. Everyone is fighting over it. I take the "less is more" attitude, but generally stay out of it. *** At home, I am trying to juggle finding time for our family to celebrate. We only have easy child 2 from 3-8pm on Christmas day. Two Brooms insists on having her Christmas celebration as she always has, at 4:30pm - right in the middle of the time we'll have easy child. She insists we eat dinner and open gifts one at a time, so it takes 2 or 3 hours. If we try to have Christmas at our house on Christmas day, we'll have to push the kids to open and run - which is SO against my belief that they should enjoy and appreciate, not shove it aside and dive into the next package. If we try to do it after, often, difficult child 2 is too tired to stay awake. I am NOT fighting to keep him awak this year. *** So we will probably open gifts at our house on some random day other than Christmas. It makes me sad that I can't have the Christmas I want with my family while my kids are still little enough to enjoy the magic of it because Two Brooms won't accept the fact that her kids are 40 and the 'magic' years are gone. *** I find that Santa is buying his gifts for difficult child with the purpose of giving wee difficult child plenty to do all day to make it thru the day. Even Santa's in survival mode this year. *** Still, I am trying to be patient. We are making Buddy Packs for the food bank to help those in need. The spirit of the season is there; I want to enjoy it. I look forward to the time I will spend with my own family, and my ex-in-laws. I look forward to Christmas eve at home with wee difficult child, baking cookies for Santa, as always. But somehow, its just missing something for me this year. [/QUOTE]
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