Xmas

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Hi Lady,s has anyone been brave enough to go christmas shopping yet I havn,t it,s less then 66days till christmasday so any of you lady,s been so brave to go christmas shopping you never know we might even have some snow for christmas day

Sorry, but I never refer to Christmas as xmas because it has always seemed disrespectful to me. But, you all know that I'm crazy.

I can't help calling it xmas, and I blame those people trying to spoil xmas for me by constantly chanting stuff like "The true message of christmas is always being forgotten, it is a religious festival!"

So it was, but now it is for everyone.

Who said you were crazy jengurlor are you just a bit crazy anyway or do your family think your a bit crazy

There are three phases to xmas.

1. You are a kid and people make it great for you
2. You enjoy xmas through children's eyes
3. You enjoy xmas without the assistance of children.

There is no doubt that 1 is by far the best, followed by 2.

But 3 is still a reason to smile, and we must not forget that.

I am at stage 3, and waiting for my daughter to assist me with stage 2, but I will still have a good time.

What Ive seen as the year pass is that traditions we had have had to change Im at stage 3 now and OH and I are sort of looking for a new way to celebrate.

When the children were very little I would put up the tree at night and when they came down in the morning I would have the curtains closed and only the tree lights on.. That morning they alway had a current bun for breakfast.
On Christmas day after lunch we would go to OH parents and they would get gifts from Grandma and Grandad.
On boxiing day we would go to my mums and have tea there with gifts from nana.

As the children got older and we moved away we had no family so we had an open door policy on boxing day and my children would invite people they (kinda) knew who didnt have family to celebrate with to come to ours. I could have anything between 6 and 20 people arriving during the day all staying for something to eat, a game of cards, a chat a drink etc.

Now my children are grown and left home and those people they knew are also gone , moved on have families of their own etc etc..

So now its just me and OH and Christmas can seem a bit like any other weekend.. We need something special for us while OH can still enjoy it..
So Im open to ideas..

Yep and its something I had always thought of doing but with OH being ill its not really an option.

I still bake  cakes for several old people I know who dont have that much and all my clients get a gift.  I know many of them dont see family from one year to the next so even a little something is gratefully received.

One old guy is French he has had the most exciting life he was in the army became a presidential bodyguard and represented France in the winter games at bobsled way back in the 1960's.
Now he is a lonely old man on a minimum pension who suffers PTSD so yes I do spoil him a bit last year I baked for him and he got a new scarf and gloves from us..
He isnt a client (he couldnt afford home help) but every wedensday I do his little bit of shopping for him so that he doesnt have to struggle with bottles or bags of potatoes.

Maybe this year I will invite him to dinner...

My mother is coming for Christmas...We are going to see the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall. NY is a mad house at Christmas but it can really put you in the Christmas spirit!

I still didn't buy any presents, but I actually have a but more time left than you all do, as we start the celebration on New Years Eve and then we have Christmas on the 7th of January. Anyway I have to start doing it as it's just a little more than a month left.

I've already bought tickets to operette on the 28th for us an in laws. So I can say I did at least something...

As far as I know we just had something mixed up with the calendar, that's why we also celebrate Old New Year's Eve on the 13th of January.

We actually celebrate something almost all the winter. There are lots of jokes that there's only one long night from the December 31 till January 14, as everyone are so drunk all this time they can hardly remember something afterwards...

That's why she is Mary and we're not.

The celebration of Three kings on Jan 6th.

Given that Jesus never produced a birth certificate does it matter?