I'm trying to get into the spirit but I'm having trouble. I better get help soon or Santa will leave me a lump of coal. Any suggestions? Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
I went to a Christmas light display tonight, and we walked through the park ...they had free horse and buggy rides too. It was nice.
My friends invited me to go to another place on Saturday night to look at lights.
I am going to go to Hershey Park next week to see Candy Lane.
I think getting out and driving around and looking at the lights is a good way to get in the mood. My friend said that she and her family get a box of Krispy Kreme donuts and drive through the rich areas and look at lights and that they have alot of fun doing that.
I am having a hard time though too, with getting in the Christmas spirit. I still feel like I just did Halloween. I can't believe it will be Christmas Eve in 1 week, and then it will be over, and I hate the idea of having to take all my decorations down.
Our Christmas party really got me in the mood, but it went so fast.
I like to try and do something Christmas related the whole month of December...wether it is baking some cookies, or watching a movie, or listening to music.
Or make some hot cocoa and stick some Christmas shaped marshmallows in it.
I love watching the Christmas decorating specials on HGTV.
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
My mom said she was in the stores today and people seem really crabby. I was feeling it a little bit the other day in the post office...it feels like people are just really wore down, that they don't have the energy any more. When I ask people about what they do for Christmas dinner- alot of people don't do anything anymore-they say it's too much hassle with everything else they have to do.
I decided to make Prime Rib for Christmas-which I have never made. But, I found a recipe for it. I found alot of cool, easy recipes to do for dinner this year. I am actually excited about cooking a sit down meal.
Posted by kevdugp73 (Member # 5978) on :
Cheer up Rip. While I don't reccomend drowning your sorrows...a few beers never hurt! Me and my wife and son went around looking at Christmas lights tonight...that helps a bit. Everyone is so busy and worn down...sometimes you need to slow down and try your best to enjoy it. I look so forward to the Christmas season, and it comes and goes too fast. Our goal this year was doing our best to get shopping done early...which we've actually finally accomplished...first time for everything. Hope you're able to erase some of your stressors and enjoys the next week or so....
Posted by xchazx (Member # 7158) on :
i lost all of my christmas spirit for a long time until i had kids. it felt like i was just going through the motions for a while but my kids have reinvigorated me. my oldest is 4 and he still believes in santa and loves all the decorations and lights and carols and everything. my youngest is only 1 1/2 so he still doesn't really know what's up but he likes christmas lights. it's amazing how kids can bring it all back.
so basically rip, go out and have yourself some kids Posted by Riptide (Member # 457) on :
I don't have kids or a wife so I guess it's difficult, but I hear you nothing exudes the x-mas spirit more than the kids. I spent time tonight with a friend who had a 2 month old, and he's such a joy to watch, we put on the Grinch and the little tyke was transfixed! Beautiful to see. I'm coming around, I had some egg nog tonight, wrapped some presents, not bad.
I think I just got burned out with big crowds, stressed shoppers in a recession (there's irony there for ya). Just feeling that I am buying the same kind of gift year after year, that sort of thing. It should be about spending time with family and loved ones, but feels sometimes like a cog in this huge commercial machine.
Posted by jdocster (Member # 5752) on :
Riptide,
Lots of Christmas movies on TV, a couple of beers...
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
I am going to get a bubble bath-I got Egg Nog scented bubble bath- so I am going to get in my jacuzzi...eat some sugar cookies, drink some cherry 7-up and watch Valley Girl. That is what Christmas is all about, in my book.
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
Boy, am I starting to get burned out. My son has a stomach virus, and has been sick all day...I have to take him to a doctor tomorrow anyway for something else, so that's going to be a long day.
I had people call today, and they need a place to stay for 6 nights...and they are coming tomorrow morning.
I went to visit my brother yesterday. He's 2 hours away from me, and it was so cold and windy last night, and in some places the roads were bad...I was glad my husband drove a 4-wheel drive vehicle. Yesterday was alot of fun though. They made me an awesome gift. We reminisced about when we were kids...that was fun. My brother has all his old toys from the 80s. (And mine)....he was playing with an old Casio organ that he got when he was about 6 years old. He still has my Einstein game. Do you guys remember the commercial for that...where they guy said "You can Call me "ray", and you can call me "johnny" , but you just can't call me Mr. Johnson. (Or something to that effect). I bet it is on you tube somewhere.
I have had a fantastic Christmas already. One of my favorite things that my friend gave me was, she got a book of Memories, and she filled it out, of all kinds of different things we have done together...and what she thought of me, and it was really nice.
I bought all my groceries last night for Christmas dinner. So, I have all that to make on Christmas Eve. I can hardly believe it is in a few days.
I hope you all are in the Christmas spirit now.
I feel like I haven't watched many Christmas movies. We were saving Christmas Vacation for Christmas Eve.
We went to a state park on Saturday night, and they had the whole park all decorated, we walked through it, there was a covered bridge and an old mill, and we walked to the top of these steps that were all lit up with Christmas lights. At the top it overlooked on to a Lake. The 4H club was there selling cocoa and cookies. They played Christmas music on speakers so you could hear it as you walked through.
I feel like I have had a great Christmas already and it hasn't even got here yet. I hate the day after when it's over. Except, I still have alot of people to see and places to go...so it will be after New Year's before I get depressed.
Merry Christmas!!
Posted by Riptide (Member # 457) on :
I watched Alistair Sim's Scrooge classic last night with my mo and her cats and I totally gotthe spirit. So good to be home, I had to do a lot of travelling in some bad weather to make it to Nova Scotia to boot.
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