I like Christmas, dammit! It’s my favorite time of the year. It’s magical to kids and the kid in me just can’t wait…you never know what you’re going to get! My kids are grown but every year I search for that one special gift they’re not expecting, the one that makes their eyes light up and they go Oooooo. That’s my best present, to see them still believe in the unimaginable. Anybody else have good thoughts about Christmas? What are your plans, expectations and memories?
Good for you.
I like “acting” like a Scrooge up until a few days before Christmas, then I get into the “spirit” so to speak. It’s great fun for me and those around me. Playing the part is a bit difficult because I’m also in the public eye as a store associate (read clerk) and I must also be pleasant and friendly. But our clientele all seem to get the “acting part” and play along.
For four long years, I have listened to you all complain about your East Coast media elite problems. Your apartment renovations and your overpriced Star Wars memorabila. I have watched you throw away better food than my family eats at Christmas! AND I HAVE LOVED IT! You people, you’re my best friends and I hope you get everything you want in life. So kiss my face! I’LL SEE YOU ALL IN HEAVEN!
Angry rant by Kenneth Parcell - 30 Rock
I like Christmas, too. There are three little kids in the family now, and shopping for them is still a pleasure. Plus, I love having a tree and lights up. It’s the coldest, darkest time of the year, so why not? Why do people bitch and moan about trying to light up our lives for a little bit? You can take a lot of the commercialism out of it yourself, if you just try.
ETA: And by that I don’t mean make it a “christian” holiday. Face it, kids, there was always some kind of lights ceremony at this time of year. Right now Christmas is popular in the West, so I celebrate it, but even if it wasn’t I’m sure I’d celebrate whatever fun lights ceremony there was!
I still love Xmas! But I’m just an overgrown kid. Still, going to my parents’ for Christmas, seeing the tree with our little kid decorations on it, all the presents, the festive decorations Mom puts up, eating the most delicious food…it’s awesome! And with online shopping, it makes Christmas shopping a breeze.
I have a little niece now too, so as she grows older we get to see her experience all the magic too. She’s still too young to really get the whole Christmas thing, but next year she should be into it.
I love Christmas. I love everything about it. The decorations, the lights, the food, the parties, the way people are nicer to each other because it’s the holidays and maybe they still believe in Santa. I love cheezy Christmas tv shows and traditional movies. I love snow (of which we have none yet) and cold and frosty toes. I actually like the crowds in stores. I love the anticipation of Christmas, the build-up to the big day.
I’m 55 and single. I have one sister and she and her husband will be at my house on Christmas Day. We have always wanted a Christmas feast of chips and cookies and candy, but my mother was bent on the traditional dinner of turkey with all the trimmings. Well, Mom has been dead for almost 2 years so this year we are having pigs in a blanket, chips, pickles and olives, cookies, candy and whatever other junk food we want.
Best Christmas present: tie between finger paints and a bicycle. I loved the finger paints because Mom and I stayed home on Christmas Eve when everyone else went to church. We sat under the tree and I told her I wanted Santa to bring me finger paints. Guess what was under the tree the next morning? Finger paints! 50 years later I still believe Santa heard my wish.
This is definitely my very favorite holiday. Besides the family and merriment, I love that it’s the turning point of the year when we will start to get a few more seconds of daylight every day.
Oh yeah, it’s the king daddy of all holidays. I also like Hanukah because it brings even more light into the season.
And I’m really digging the music this year. Not the cartoony crap that you get on the radio, but choral stuff, orchestral stuff, and the old baroque stuff. That brings a certain reverence to the season.
And I got my great nephew the DVD boxed set of seasons 1-7 of Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers.
I adore Christmas. I start planning in August. I start shopping in September. I’m the family Santa, I’m the one who bakes the traditional cookies, I’m the one who makes Christmas dinner, I’m generally the one who keeps it all going.
It’s extra fun now that I have a kid.
I’ve never understood people who bitch and moan about Christmas. They hate the decorations, the music, the crowded stores, pretty much everything about the holiday. Christmas was always a big thing for me and my siblings growing up and now I try to replicate that for my child.
I like the crowds and the music and the lights, too. When we lived in TN my mother would always say “I hope it snows ass-deep to a giraffe!” Sometimes she got her wish.
It’s Christmas for Pete’s sake! If you can’t enjoy Christmas, then you obviously have issues. Unless this time of the year is associated with something horrible for you, then you have an excuse.