Where are you CHRISTmas?

Where are you Christmas?

Why Cant I find you?

Why have you gone away?

-Faith Hill

So my Friday did not happen as I had hoped it would. Instead of relaxing at home with my kiddos I ended up braving the Christmas shoppers. (OMG I said Christmas! I will get to this rant in a bit.) Aeryn had an amazing idea for some Christmas gifts for family at a family Christmas (I said it again!) party. I can not say until AFTER next weekend what the amazing idea was but we decided to do the shopping for those items instead of staying home. Along with the shopping (Thankfully we only had to go to two stores) I went to the post office to get stamps for my sister. Never again I will I dare to go to the post office right before Christmas (oops there is another one). I stood in line for half an hour. Had quite a good chat with the lady in front of me as we marveled at the fact that they had only one person at the counter, a nice gentleman, while three other women ran around and shouted things. One of them got increasingly annoying as she kept yelling at the line of customers (which was at least 50 people long). She was trying to get them to all get out of line and use the new electronic system. Which is all well and good for anyone who does not have to pay with cash or a check as the machine only accepts cards.

Anyway, now on to my rant about Christmas. Not the holiday. The word. When did it become not ok to say "Merry Christmas!"? I apparently missed this memo. Now I am not a particularly religious person. But even I know that Christmas is about the birth of Christ. Now we have a "Holiday Tree" in the White House. And a "Holiday Tree" in state capitols. We have to say "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas". I was sitting at work the other day discussing this with a friend and we are both confused. Okay so we are supposed to be politically correct. Not a problem. But people have become so afraid of offending someone that they are willing to massacre a beautiful holiday. Personally I think that people should be allowed to celebrate their own holidays without having to compromise what they believe. If you believe in Christ, celebrate Christmas. If you don't believe in Christ, don't celebrate Christmas, but don't ask everyone else to follow your way of thinking. It is all a marketing ploy. We want people to buy more stuff, at CHRISTMAS, people buy said stuff. In order to get more people to buy stuff, even those who do not believe in Christ, we try to take the Christ out of CHRISTmas! Get with it people, celebrate the holiday that best goes with your beliefs. But do not get mad at me when I was down the street and wish you a MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

That is my rant for the morning. I am going to take the kids to see their favorite boys (pictured below). Then we are going to head out for lunch with Aunt Christy and Grammy Donna.

The "Boys" happen to be of the four legged variety. Lee and Zeke are a local team owned by a friend. Aeryn loves every opportunity she is given to spend time with them and hopes to have a team of her own some time in the future. You can take my little girl away from the farm but you can not take the farm away from my little girl. In case you are wondering, the team is also available for functions and parties. I rented them for Aeryn's birthday party last year, and they also made an appearance at our Halloween party this year. 

Merry Christmas Everybody!