So, how's your holiday season going? The lack of snow is making things SO much easier for me this year. Are you bogged down by gifts to buy, dinners to make or impossible relatives to please?
Take a step back and breathe. This isnt what Christmas is about. We get lost in the hustle and hustle of it all and forget why we're all coming together. We're supposed to be celebrating the birth of our savior, yet we're concerned more about the deals and the gifts.
Take a break from the commercialism of it all and just hang out with friends and family. Make memories that are going to last long after the toys break.
If you're like me and Christmas isn't what it used to be when you we're a kid, do something about. Make a decision to not get swept up in the attitudes or the adult portion of it all. Give back to your community. Watch the Christmas movies you watched as a kid.
And for the love of everything holy, push away the bad memories. As someone who lost her father around Christmas, I understand why Christmas is hard. Believe me. But for our own sanity, we have to come up with new traditions that make us happy. No, we don't want to. But for the sake of moving on and not being miserable, we have to.
What does this long ramble have to do with Christmas Spirit you ask? In short, if you weren't born with it in your blood (some people just live and breathe Christmas), it is up to you to find it. Christmas is but once a year, it's time to associate it with good memories and make it fun!
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