We’ll be having a Domestic-Diva-Lil’Freeper-Is-On-Strike Christmas this year. Past couple of years I’ve pulled out all the stops on Currier&Ives/Burl Ives-type Christmasses... to a lukewarm response. I’m sick of making goodies for family and friends only to have them take the plate of cookies to work and leave it in the break room at work the next day - *every* year. So this year I’m going on strike. Family gets a single cookie and a Target gift card (no bow, I’m debating even about an envelope). Local friends will contemplate life with no cookies. Harumph. The Christmas tree is going to be the ultimate symbol of my rebellion: a non-traditional crazy color scheme based on the wonderful, fun, Oaxacan theme tree in the La Posta Restaurant (Las Cruces, NM) last year. It should raise some eyebrows. Ayi-yi-yi-yi!
I think that a good idea! You sure knock yourself out every year, and, if it’s not appreciated, well, you know.
LSA
Woo-hoo! You go! Make sure you have fun too!
Cookies....mmmmmm...
Well Merry Bah Humbug to you too!
Actually, I applaud your attitude. We’re already in over our head for Christmas. Yes, I know, I know, I know. But it’s what we do.
We’ve been added as group leaders this year and had our third meeting for the show already this past Monday. And, as if that isn’t enough, the choir is recording a Christmas CD. So, when normally we don’t return to choir rehearsal until after Labor Day, we’ve already started working on that.
I told the Mrs. that we have until Labor Day to get organized/house clean, etc., etc., etc. or I’m dropping out.
Heh, sounds GREAT!
Good morning, HH.
I'm sure that after we move back to MS, our Christmases will be a lot busier. I'm used to just doing for our kids and us, as far as decorating and gifts are concerned, and frankly, the kids enjoyed this Christmas, when our big tree was packed in the trailer, and we only had a little tree in a wooden container, and I could only put about 8 ornaments on it, because that's all I had that were not packed. ;o) #2 son said he was glad they didn't have to help decorate the tree with my 6000 ornaments. Smart alek; I only have about 1000!
The biggest difference will be Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. For the last 10 years, we've sung Midnight Mass with the Festival Choir, and after Mass, we always have a party down in the Parish Hall. Usually, we make it home about 3 in the morning, do St. Nick, open a gift, then hit the hay. We typically roll out of bed about noon, then we open the rest of the gifts, I put "Messiah" in the CD player and start cooking.
I don't think SirKit's brother does Midnight Mass at his Parish. I think they do a 9pm Mass, so that folks get home before midnight. He also likes doing it that way, so he doesn't have folks wandering in drunk after a Christmas Eve party, which is what used to happen at my home parish. Folks can also bring their kids, who will inevitably crash after Mass, and the parents can do their St. Nick thing, and the kids are less likely to wake up at 5 am!
But we'll have family close by, so we'll be doing more Christmas Day dinners, which I'm really going to enjoy, since I haven't had to do them for the last 30 years!
You know, that's just going to make everyone ask you, "How come you didn't make cookies this year??"