This post is written in conjunction with the 30 Days of Writing, a blog challenge devised by Nicky and Mike at “We Work For Cheese.” I’ll be participating throughout the month of June. If interested, you can see my post with the details of the challenge.
Please note that some of these posts will be serious, some will be normal, and some will be an attempt at humor.
I’m not sure where to go with this one, so it might be a short one.
I can honestly say I don’t remember a bad Christmas. The holiday has always been a good one for my family. Well, sans the one year (and I don’t even remember this — I’ve only heard about it in stories) where one of my brothers apparently peeked at presents and once Christmas morning came he wasn’t surprised.
The one year Christmas was supposed to suck — the first without my father — actually was a good one. See, my father was a big kid when it came to Christmas. So the day was a little somber at first, but we had memories of him and it ended up being a fun day.
I’ve never experienced the bad family Christmas where the crazy uncle comes and parks his RV on your lawn. I think it’s always been one of those holidays where our family gets together and it’s not so bad. It’s Christmas, after all.
As a kid, presents, of course, were how you judged a Christmas. And I always thought our parents (or Santa!) hooked us up pretty well. It wasn’t as if you got done, had a temper tantrum and kicked things over.
I’ve heard stories of other people and bad days for this holiday. Whether it’s something personal or petty, there are stories. And it’s sad to hear. I have always enjoyed the feeling of Christmas. It’s a wonderful time of the year and it’s hard — at least for me — to not be slightly cheery. Even going through it this past year being unemployed, it was a way to be away from the real world and such.
The colors, the glitz and everything else makes it cheery.
Now, I understand not everyone celebrates Christmas. So this might not pertain to them at all.
For me, Christmas is a way to have a nice day with family and celebrate what we do have. The gift-giving is fun, but I truly do enjoy the other aspects of the holiday and have a very hard time thinking of them as bad times — or as the worst Christmas ever.
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As for this topic — I had to cover it based on the 30 Days of Writing Challenge. I will say this, however — it is extremely difficult writing about Christmas and all when it’s the beginning of summer and warm as can be outside!
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You had a nice normal family and that is so unusual! Still, I like how we do it now. Mom passed about 5 years ago. Since then, Alex and I get together with the kids either before or after Christmas and do our own “Christmas” with them. On Christmas Eve, we go out to dinner, the two of us, come home, open our gifts to each other, share a bottle of wine, and have a lovely night. On Christmas Day, we go across the Bay Bridge to our friends open house. No muss, no fuss. So much more fun than the frantic bash for the holiday.
Linda Medrano recently posted..Worst Christmas Ever – Day 25
Well, define normal. ;)But, yes, for the most part we went down the normal lane and it’s nice. Your way of doing things doesn’t sound bad, either!
Christmas was always fun at my house too. My dad always hooked us up good too. And when my kids found out there was no Santa (gasp!)I came up with a treasure hunt with clues and everything. I had to do that for many years. I love the lights and glitter and just stuff tooooo.
No Santa? There’s always a Santa!
Pssf, you know what I mean. My kids were very mad at me that I lied about that and the Easter Bunny AND the tooth fairy. Yeah, anyway I had to come up with something fun and I spent the better part of our summer vacation writing down rhyming cues for the Christmas treasure hunt, lol.
When my kids were younger Christmas was all about them. And I loved it. Now I have grandkids and I just love to see their faces when they tear off the wrapping paper on their gifts. When I was a kid my brothers and I would give each other gag gifts like a big heavy box, brightly wrapped, with a brick in it. The expression on our faces back then was something to behold too!
nonamedufus recently posted..30 Days of Writing – #25 – Worst Christmas Ever
Christmas should always be about the kids. It’s so fun to watch them rip things open. Love watching kids on Christmas morning.
I know what you mean about it being hard to cover this subject when it’s a beautiful summer day out! But you did good. 🙂
Nicky recently posted..And To All A Good Night
I did the best I could. 😉
Christmas in our house was always a happy time too. Mum and dad had always made it special when we were tiny and it stayed with us all. Christmas was a time for plenty of laughter and love. The gifts, though nice to receive, were not top priority.
Babs – Beetle recently posted..Who wants a white Christmas?
A time for laughter and love… so very true. Nicely said!
It is nice that all your Christmas memories are good ones. My childhood ones were all good. It was usually just my parents and me. Any family that visited came over Thanksgiving or Easter.
And yes, the thought of writing about Christmas in this heat (92 deg.) feels a bit strange. Maybe it was chosen as today is the 25th – 6 months before Christmas. Started your shopping yet? 😉
Linda recently posted..My Worst Christmas Ever
Yeah, I tried hard to think about it and never really thought we had a bad one. At least that I remember!
My family Christmases were AWESOME… this made me think of them and smile!
Katherine recently posted..Worst Christmas Ever
Awesome! I’m glad it did!
Being in Australia, our Christmas falls in summer. Kind of ruins the magic of it that you see in movies, but it stll works.
Michael D’Agostino recently posted..My Rules for Life
That would be odd to me, that’s for sure. I love the white Christmas, though we didn’t have much of one this year!
Why not? It didn’t snow? Or are you referring to the fact that you couldn’t over-celebrate because you’re unemployed?
Michael D’Agostino recently posted..My Rules for Life
Yeah, not much snow. Our whole winter was pretty green and tame.