{"id":198,"date":"2009-05-08T23:53:33","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T23:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/?p=198"},"modified":"2009-05-08T23:53:33","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T23:53:33","slug":"its-beginning-to-look-alot-likeentry-for-november-30-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"It’s beginning to look alot like…….Entry for November 30, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nWhile driving around once before Thanksgiving, I noticed Christmas lights. On the radio….Christmas music!!! BEFORE THANKSGIVING???
\nWhy 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.
\nThere 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. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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