Here we are again and like it or not Christmas is well on it's way. With just under two weeks to go I wonder how many people are feeling the Christmas Spirit, ( I said feeling not drinking hic!). Judging by the faces in the shops over the past few days, there doesn't appear to be a lot of Christmas Spirit around.
Christmas day as a child was the best time of the year and my parents made sure that we had a great day even when times were hard. We learned that Christmas was not all about getting or giving presents, it was about caring and sharing. You don't have to be rich to enjoy Christmas. A traditional family Christmas is what you make it, it's doesn't have to be how other people think it should be.
As children we would make paper chains, stars and drawings to hang round the walls as Christmas decorations. Our parents would help us to make and hang them. Our house looked as much a part of Christmas as the houses with expensive decorations. We all helped to decorate the old Christmas tree we were all so fond of. Our parents filled our imaginations with stories of Santa and his reindeer and we would often lay in bed and listen out for jingle bells. We had no idea about the adult run up to Christmas. The twenty first century Christmas is a far cry from the Christmas I knew as a child.
Nowadays I detest the run up to Christmas, the shopping, the hustle and bustle, tv adverts with their tunes sticking in my head all day. The worry that I may have left someone out of my card or present list. It seems to go on forever The two weeks before Christmas Day is a bah-humbug from me!! I usually want to be a child again back in my parents house where all I had to think about was making little decorations.
I have to say, that I do eventually get the Christmas Spirit (feeling not drinking hic!) on Christmas Eve and it follows me all the way through to the New Year. It often fades away on the second of January but I enjoy it when it's there. On Christmas Even the stress of preparing for Christmas seems worth it. The caring and sharing with my family makes Christmas very special and I feel lucky to have them around me.
I keep telling myself that if I had been more prepared and organised earlier in the year I might enjoy the run up to Christmas. Next year probably won't be any different, I will still detest the run up to Christmas but in the end the Christmas Spirit gets me anyway.
Like it or not I wish you all a Very Merry Christmas for 2012 hic! Cheers
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