Merry Christmas!!!

spyrosmom

spyrosmom

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OK, so I am a Christmas nut. I love Christmas. I have 5 trees in an 800 square foot house. Last year my spirit was a little lacking, but this year it's hear full force and I am extra especially excited. Why? I don't know. but I sure am. One of the radio stations has started doing their 24/7 Christmas music from now til New Years. I am driving my hubby batty. No decorations til the day after Thanksgiving, though. Am I alone here, or are there anymore like me out there???

Nan
 
Nan,
You're adorable.
But crazy. ;)

I wish I had your holiday spirit. I'm a ball of stress this time of year.
You're too cute for words!
 
Nan - You are so funny! Merry Christmas to you, too! The carols have already started on a few radio stations...hope your decorating goes great!!
 
I'm pretty excited, too! I try to hold off the major decorating and stuff until after Thanksgiving, but I'll be pulling out the Christmas music soon. I can't play it around DH, though. He can be such a Scrooge.

I'm a little slow this year, though. I only have a couple presents bought so far. Tomorrow I plan to take a picture of my boys for our Christmas cards. I tend to jump the gun on those--I think last year I might have sent them before Thanksgiving. That's probably a little too soon.

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I love decorating and I love the baking and cooking involved, but I do wait until after Thanksgiving to really get into it. I kind of feel that it's one holiday at a time - and with DH being Indian, for us it's Diwali (next weekend), Thanksgiving then Christmas.

DH, on the other hand - is a Christmas nut (yes - my Indian DH who was born and raised Hindu). He loves the lights, the music (which he sings to - way off key - he is absolutely tone deaf), the hustle and bustle and the way people tend to be happier this time of the year. It's true, really. People do tend to be nicer and more fun this time of the year. Oh yeah, and he LOVES the parties! He's such a social butterfly. I'm more a stick in the mud. :p
 
Another Christmas fanatic right here! I will be gone over Christmas and so I won't be getting a real tree like we usually do. Ahem...I'm actually getting out my decorations tomorrow...
Angela:7
 
Me I love it!! I have 3 children and I just love all the traditions and sharing it with them. It is a bit early, but I am starting to think red and green!!
 
Not a fanatic here. I'm more of a one-holiday-at-a-time person. But I do enjoy Christmas. My spirit will kick in with the annual viewing of the classic Christmas Vacation - which can't happen before T'giving.

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I love Christmas too! I love the presents shopping, the baking, the present wrapping! Last year I bought this CD/DVD that will play a picture of a crackling fireplace on your tv screen, while playing christmas tunes also. I love it!! I can sit there and wrap presents "by the fire" and listen to music -- so much fun!

I also try to wait until after Thanksgiving to do the major decorating!
 
I LOVE Christmas(especially since my b-day is 2 days after!)I love the lights, baking, the smells of pine, and all the children's faces. I'm usually stressed but as soon as I see my kids' smiles and awe of the holiday it brings it all back. I'm really getting in the mood now that the snow is rolling in:) I'm dreaming of a white Christmas this year, just not 4 feet of it like last year:eek:
 
Nope! I think constant commercial marketing has ruined Giftmas for me and while I enjoy spending time with family and eating the food I'm always glad when it's over. I'll be counting the days until spring. ;-)
 
I hear ya, Nan, I'm the same way!!!

I've started listening to Christmas music, too, on our XM radio on the TV. I read that if you don't like your job you should listen to some of your favorite music before going to work in the morning. Well......I DON'T like my job right now at all, so I've been listening to Christmas music in the morning while getting ready (yes, my family, too, thinks I'm losing it - BIG TIME!) But, it has helped a lot, in fact my favorite one was on yesterday just before I left and it was great - carried me through the day.

I don't put decorations up until Thanksgiving night when we get home from the in-laws, but then it's full force! :)

Take care everyone
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!

Marcia.
 
Amen Beavs...I may be a scrooge but I agree 100%. Even our nieces and nephew do not know what Christmas is about. This year we put our foot down and have refused to spoil them rotten. DH has declared that Giftmas will NOT be celebrated. AMEN to that!
 
<How 'bout Festivus? :7 :7 :7 >

Ooh! I like that! Now that is something I could be down with. I hope some of y'all will join me ;-) :7
 
Festivus for the rest of us! I'm with ya, Beavs! :)

I do like Christmas but prefer simplicity. I absolutely hear you on the commercialization and going overboard. Once Black Friday weekend passes, I will avoid shopping until the end of January at the earliest.

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I like Christmas just fine, I just don't go overboard on any of it. A couple of weeks before Christmas, we go get our tree and put it up. (And we take it down New Year's day.) We stopped giving and receiving gifts from friends long ago. Instead, I try to have dinner or get together with a few of them after New Year's when everyone's life has calmed down a bit. DH & I give gifts to each other, our neice and nephew, a friend's three-year old daughter, and my stepmom (we are both orphans now).

Around mid-December, I start listening to a holiday mixed-cd that I put together (it changes yearly), we watch "A Christmas Story," "It's a Wonderful Life," and maybe a version of "A Christmas Carole" and that's about it. No stress. No buying (literally!) into the whole thing. It's a nice day off at home, just the two of us and the menagerie. We have bruch, drink mimosas, open gifts in front of the fire, read, watch movies, and take a nap.
 
I really look forward to Airing of the Grievances!

BTW, I do love listening to Run DMC's Christmas in Hollis!
 
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