5 days of shopping left until the fat man makes his trip and we've barely started.
This year we're reducing out gift giving and mainly concentrating on the little guys and gal, I remember when watching our own kids open presents was the best gift of all on Christmas Eve, they couldn't tear into them fast enough and the excitement of what's in that box was electrifying.
Little did they know at that time the hours we spent driving from this store to that one, walking the aisles, fighting the crowds, making sure each one had a equal number of gifts to open, standing in line and wrapping the presents for about 20 minutes of un-wrapping.
A lot has changed since then, kids have grown, kids have moved away, kids have moved back and moved away again and now the kids have kids.
Other changes from those day's have taken place as well, the economy has gone to hell in a handbag, there are movies about Santa falling off a roof and being replaced by Tim the Tool man, Santa being sabotaged by Jack Frost, Santa being a Bad Santa, some guy becoming a snowman, remakes of great classics that will never become great classics and now a bunch of dogs helping Santa out?
WTH? What happened to the ones when I was a kid? What happened to Burl Ives being a snowman, Rudolph's red nose, Charlie Brown, and the cartoon Grinch? And...............
What happened to celebrating the real meaning of Christmas?
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