Groan...I am still full!

I am still stuffed from Thanksgiving!  And we are still eating leftovers...the best part of Thanksgiving dinner!!!  Hope you are yours had a wonderful turkey day.

Now it is time to start thinking about Christmas.  Oh, it's not like I don't think about it ALL YEAR, but now I have to DO something about it.  I have a few choices:  A) ignore it and go directly to January    B) Start shopping   C)  See A.  Personally, this year I favor A.  Of course, I can't do that, but from where I am sitting right now, that looks like the best option.  Then, I have to question why I don't enjoy the Holiday's like I used to?  That brings up a whole new scenario.  I think that for me, growing older and not having any of the kids around us dulls the holidays a whole lot.  AND, we have no babies near us either.  My mom used to say Christmas was for kids, and boy, the older I get more she was right, darn it all.

 Another reason is that you start seeing ads for Christmas around Halloween time and by the time December rolls around I am already tired of it all.  The commercialism of Christmas reallys gets to me.  I wonder if I just didn't buy any gifts this year for any one if any one would notice?  I just may try that and see what happens?  OH, I know no one would probably have the guts to say to me "HEY, where is my gift?"; well, maybe a few would, but for the most part, probably no one would notice.  I might just try that!  Sounds better to me all of the time.  Instead of buying gifts for everyone I would just donate the money to a charity.  Beginning to sound better and better to me.  None of our children really need/want anything that I can afford; and for the most part, our grandchildren are grown and none of them need/want anything that I can afford; our great grandchildren get so much from so many people, it almost seems foolish to try and buy them something they don't have, because as far as I can see they have everything they need/want.  See A above.

AND I don't want to decorate either.  Just see no point in pulling out all of those boxes, put up the tree, then in late December (like the 26th) take it all down and haul it back to the shed for 11 months and 2 weeks of storage.  Makes no sense to me. 

I want to go back to the real reason for the season...the birth of Jesus.  FORGET the hussle and bussle of trying to buy the perfect gift for everyone.  If it truly is the season of giving, then lets give to the poor, unfortunate people that NEED it; I think this year I am going to do just that.  Donate to the less fortunate through our church.  DONE DEAL. 

This rant was brought to you by the Christmas Scrooge.