Happy Holidays or Merry Christmas?

I believe in Santa Claus but there was a time I thought I had grown to old.  He became a dream to me until one Christmas Eve someone stood beside my bed with a beard of white. “So you’re too old for Santa Claus,” he said with a smile.  “Then you’re too old for all the things that make a life worth while, for what is happiness but dreams and do they all come true.  Look at me and tell me son what is real to you.”

Just believe in Santa Claus like you believe in love.  Just believe in Santa Claus and everything he does. Wipe that question from your mind, yes he does exist–just like love you know he’s there waiting to be missed. Just like love I know he’s there, waiting to be me missed.

That was an excerpt from “Year Without a Santa Claus”   I love Christmastime.

I had a good day today. It was the first day of my vacation!!!  I slept in a little, but not too much. I wrapped a ton of presents, and realized I’m really well off in what I have to get done for Christmas.  I wrapped at the Red Cross Booth and Liz stopped by to say hi Mom started baking…I took my family out to dinner with my Christmas bonus and my brother came   Then I helped Mom make a super large batch of cereal bars!  Now let me tell you about the cereal bar conundrum. First off–they’re delicious. They’re a peanutbuttery-chocolate, cruncy mouthful of goodness. So much that my uncle would pick all of them out of the “community” cookie tin on Christmas Eve and everyone (namely my brother and I) would complain that he eats them all–My mom started to make him his very own batch for Christmas…and also for his birthday a month later… But STILL he picks them out of the community tin…. grr!  So tonight my mom was contemplating making a double batch now and possibly making more later… or to triple it now and be done with it. I told her if she couldn’t promise to make them later then she should do it all now, no matter how hard it would be to stir all the yumminess in one pan….I ended up helping her because I was too bah-humbug to work on my gingerbread house… and boy-oh-boy is it tough to stir all that cereal into the melting peanut butter, and then stir in all the chocolate morsels…But it was worth it!! Instead of the 108…it made 180!!!! woohoo!!!

So I have wisely decided that I will not make the entire gingerbread out of scratch…I have bought the kit. I figure it’s like 3 days until it’s got to be done, and I’m not even quite sure what I’m doing yet… I figure it’s a good starting point for years to come. Although I did read one tip online that my instructions have not included. That tip is to decorate all of the pieces before assembling… that way you can ensure straight lines and it’ll be easier to tack on candies because gravity will hold them down onto the walls instead of dragging them down to the ground.

So I’m excited. Christmas Eve is at our house! Thanks only to my aunt and uncle having to work at their store Christmas Eve…So I have to finish decorating too. Also, I bought this silver angel with a saying engraved on it… Which really makes me think of my cousin and I would like to give it to him excepting that it’s really girlie…Therefore I think I might take on the project of making something for him with the saying on it. It’s from Mother Teresa–”I know that God will not give me anything I cannot handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.”

OH!!I also made 4 boxes tonight for my mom to put truffles in for gifts I’m just moving along!

I’m sure I’ll have another post before Christmas, but if not. Merry Christmas to all! and if your offended by that then wish me a Happy Chanukkah, Solstice, or Kwanza… I won’t be offended because I would like to have all those holidays  happy for me too… Until about 13 seconds ago I was always pissed off when people would say “Happy Holidays” instead of “Happy Chanukkah” or what have you… But I realized that while it serves the purpose to not offend a person when you don’t know what holiday they celebrate…It also is bestowing upon the recipient 4 happy holidays in one greeting… I am typically adament about wishing EVERYONE a Merry Christmas…and getting offended that people would say the generic “HH” to me… But they are wishing me 4 happy holidays, not just one merry one… although then you must weigh the difference between 1 merry and 4 happys…. any ideas on the exchange rate for that one?

Anyway, my point is I’m stoked about my vacation, thrilled to have such wonderful friends looking out for me, esteemed to realize just how much my parents care about me (my dad has been hugging me a lot more recently, and he even danced with me this morning in the kitchen), and I’m glad to have atleast some of my typical Christmas spirit. Maybe I should dig out the ol’ Coloring books

Well everyone—Have some happy holidays and merriment all through the season!