Not in the Christmas spirit?

[theoldchick]

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I think my husband is in the same boat as you. His mother died 10/29 so he's still reeling emotionally from that. His alcoholic diabetic dad is now alone in his house. The family is trying to get through the holidays by keeping dad busy. Nobody is thinking about giving gifts and I'm perfectly fine with that.

 

[QuinnP]

me too. I can now say I'm feeling the way my first hubby must have felt in the final month he was alive........... loneliness, hurt, despair, no energy, the 'why bother syndrome'

 

[SmokinChick]

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In the Christmas spirit, they should say thank you. You were in the Spirit by participating as best as you could. Don't let others bring you down.
the problem is there alot of pressure from preconcieved ideas of Christmas. Its a holiday enjoy it. Friends love you no matter what you bring or serve. I deal with it by smiling and saying Merry Christmas, works everytime.

 

[Carols Clucks]

I will join you in the Merry Christmas NOT spirit!

I got ripped by a lazy co-worker bookkeeper on my Christmas Bonus check-she took the max rate out in taxes because doing the calculations was "a tongue twister" (she does bookkeeping and tax returns for income-but the 2 minutes it would take to use the charts to do mine was too much work....she is contract employee and I am the only actual employee that she had to calculate. I get the money back when I file but still Merry blanking Christmas. Her check is unaffected) My bf has spent a ton of time and money helping me at my moms so I really wanted to get him something nice (it is his birthday too), but there is just enough left to buy my sons and their fiances something. Thankfully he is very kind and understanding and is waiting til tax time. She took out more from one check than she has all year-one would think she would have realized her mistake.

So, if I take in the cans to recycling I can get the last gift for the girls and maybe buy something else for Christmas dinner, but otherwise it is what we have on hand.

Bah Humbug!

 

[Fierlin1182]

I'll join you, we're not really in the Christmas spirit here either.

Usually most years I'll get little gifts from my friends, but even those ceased to happen this year. My parents last gave me Xmas presents when I was six, and will probably be working up to Christmas Eve as will I.

The holidays don't really bring us together at all. We spend no more time as a family than we usually do. Maybe we should, but we don't exactly get along like a house on fire. I'm happy with that, I'm used to being alone after having spent four years in Australia with no friends.

 

[Avalon1984]

It is so interesting to hear all of your stories. I am not too worried about the stupid potluck. I am currently coming down with a chest cold anyways, not sure if somebody ants to even touch my stuff. This year seems to just have been extra tragic. Quite a few people we know died, a family just lost their only 2 kids in a terrible accident last week, I knew one of the kids, she took riding lessons with me. Life is just so terribly unfair and at the end, all you can do is to is to be grateful you made it home safe from work without anybody hitting you. If all the tragedy, tight budgets etc. will do any good, I hope it will bring people together and remind them of what this is really all about. Let the people with big wallets continue to try and relive a Christmas they see in movies; for me, I am just grateful my farm is growing and I am married. Nothing more needed to be grateful for.

 

[gritsar]

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Try taking 1,000 mg. (1 gram) of vitamin C a day to ward off the chest cold. Both DH and I take a gram of it a day all winter through.

 

[Avalon1984]

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Try taking 1,000 mg. (1 gram) of vitamin C a day to ward off the chest cold. Both DH and I take a gram of it a day all winter through.

I will do Mom