While driving around once before Thanksgiving, I noticed Christmas lights. On the radio….Christmas music!!! BEFORE THANKSGIVING???
Why does the Christmas celebration start earlier every year? The commercial reasons are obvious; many retailers do a significant portion of their business during Christmastime, so the sooner the sleigh bells ring, the happier stores are.
There is a deeper reason Christmas starts earlier each year: We want to live in the Christmastime world, and this has nothing to do with religion. In the Christmastime world, children are happy, family is gathered round, and all the year’s exhausting and stressful overwork has at least led to a pile of presents. Candles are lighted, and we listen for a sound in the distance.
Christmastime also brings out the strongest positive memories of most people’s childhoods…of presents, singing, anticipation, and the adults forcing themselves to get along. The Christmas weeks are the time we believe all is right with the world, whether or not we actually go over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house. We want to enter the time of believing all is well, so every year we push up the start date.
At this time of year remember how blessed we are to be from such a BIG family. And how it has grown….and is still growing: Ann and her children, all our kids, Larry and Paul and their kids, the new kids on the block…Maddy, Becky, Britt and Bella! And our greatest blessing…..we are all resonably healthy. Merry Christmas
COMMENT:
AUTHOR:
DATE: 11/30/2007 23:12:46
I’ll drink to that!!! A cup of coffee that is…..in the morning…Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night..ho ho ho…
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Scott
DATE: 12/02/2007 21:47:33
Amen to that. I was just thinking a similar thought. Why do we take a single day holiday and turn it into a one month celebration of lights and decorations and songs? Because of the deeper brotherhood, memories, and connection of souls that occurs during this time.
Christmas blessings to you and whomever you call yours.
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR:
DATE: 12/17/2007 14:56:39
What ever happened to that big picture of grandpa????????
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR:
DATE: 12/17/2007 20:10:50
Christmas came early for me this year or maybe it was the penny I threw into the fountain when we met Paul, Bonnie & kids in Orlando; well whatever it was I got the best gift EVER. After many endless nights & countless tears, Elizabeth told her dad that she wanted to move in with me & Gary & she did not back down.
Kim has a job starting in 2008.
Now if we could just get the boys here, life would be perfectly unperfect! May you all receive the gift you have been dreaming of. Kerry Mistmas!
–Ann
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR:
DATE: 12/21/2007 21:02:44
Happy Happy Joy joy! Wish we could all be together for Christmas like on Whitman St. Love you all and hope we all are happy and healthy for the year 2008.
Bon
–Bon Bon
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