Christmas Spirit....where has it gone? I am been trying to figure out that question lately and to be honest still don't have a answer. I'm not talking, "Bah Humbug" or anything, I still absolutely love this holiday, but just doesn't seem like Christmas time. It seems anymore that the holiday comes and goes so quickly you don't have time to sit and enjoy. Now there really is no excuse for me not to have the spirit, after all i have two young children and that should be enough. Right? I have thought of maybe it's the fact that Olivia is in school all day and I don't have that energetic little soul reminding me all day about Christmas and watching shows and playing music in the car, etc. Now I do have Logan and next year he will understand, so maybe then it will come back, but in the meantime i would like to have it back this year.
So what is it? How do you get that feeling back inside you like before when the whole month of December was exciting because this month was special b/c of Christmas? I could always blame my neighbors who never put any lights or decorations up or I could simply blame myself for trying to make everything perfect and when it does not turn out that way, being bummed. There are a lot of life lessons we learn along the way, I have learned lately that I need to slow down, listen to what people are really saying instead of pretending I hear what they say and listening to my kids from their level. Maybe that's where the spirit has gone........I am not listening on a child's level!
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were you asking me? my friend who i havent seen in many yrs called me the cmas maniac recently so she knows me to be that way since highschool. theres a lot i dont like about it and you're right with liv being in school and Lo being so young but get it within yourself by listening to cmas music instead of silence, read cmas books to the kids every night before bed, make cookies or just a cmas craft, gift shop online, make your own gifttags, plan your menu, have an advent wreath (make it) to light and pray by before dinner every night, take the long way home at dusk-night to see the lights, a different way during the day to count the decorated houses... #1 do not listen to all the scrooges around you! you must do something everyday though. :)
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