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<blockquote data-quote="DaisyFace" data-source="post: 323261" data-attributes="member: 6546"><p>The holidays!! Uggghhhh!!!!</p><p> </p><p>I think it would help if the media didn't try to make the holiday season the "end-all-be-all" celebration of the year. It puts unrealistic expectations into the heads of families who KNOW that their family is not capable of behaving like the family on the Christmas cards--and yet they expect it anyway (cause after all, it's the holiday!)</p><p> </p><p>And then when our families turn out NOT to be the perfect people we expected for the holidays, feelings get hurt on many sides...</p><p> </p><p>Yes, it's probably best to just have a nice, albeit VERY toned-down, celebration at home. It's easiest on everyone.</p><p> </p><p>My own Thanksgiving was torture enough--I am SOOO glad I did not try to take that show on the road by accepting an invitation somewhere. There is no way we would have been capable of being the "perfect people" that were expected for dinner.</p><p> </p><p>Sometimes, you just have to create your own tradition based upon the familiy dynamic you have--the heck with what they show on television (and movies, and commercials, and magazines, and books, and postcards, etc etc etc)</p><p> </p><p>--DaisyFace</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DaisyFace, post: 323261, member: 6546"] The holidays!! Uggghhhh!!!! I think it would help if the media didn't try to make the holiday season the "end-all-be-all" celebration of the year. It puts unrealistic expectations into the heads of families who KNOW that their family is not capable of behaving like the family on the Christmas cards--and yet they expect it anyway (cause after all, it's the holiday!) And then when our families turn out NOT to be the perfect people we expected for the holidays, feelings get hurt on many sides... Yes, it's probably best to just have a nice, albeit VERY toned-down, celebration at home. It's easiest on everyone. My own Thanksgiving was torture enough--I am SOOO glad I did not try to take that show on the road by accepting an invitation somewhere. There is no way we would have been capable of being the "perfect people" that were expected for dinner. Sometimes, you just have to create your own tradition based upon the familiy dynamic you have--the heck with what they show on television (and movies, and commercials, and magazines, and books, and postcards, etc etc etc) --DaisyFace [/QUOTE]
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