random Christmas...

Got the Christmas tree up this last week.  Without it I feel Jewish or Jehovah Witness, I need to let the neighborhood know that I am am all into the cult following of the jolly fat red elf and the consumerism blitz that rules the United States.

Put the tree up and then let Nick help with decorations, or in Nick's case undecorated.  Nick, Dr. Bunny, and Isis gang up on the tree and help themselves to various ornaments.  These ornaments then are found through out the house: Cupboards, beds, under bed, under table, on table, in tub (in toilet if that is accessible), in the toy box, under the couch, in the couch, in the kitchen, in the office, well basically anywhere a ornament can be left, it has been left.  I have to say this all quite exciting!  Particularly when I go off to do laundry and find a well washed and traumatized jiggle bell! 

We have also been celebrating random Christmas.  Basically, Nick finds a present under the tree and either gnaws or tears it open.  We have tried to deter this sort of behavior, but since he hasn't even figured out how to put his socks on let, it is a lost cause.  Several times a week we get a present.  Such a lovely surprise!  Nick has not figured out he needs to focus on his presents over ours, as he so far as only opened our presents.  Such a carrying delightful giving child!

I am always slightly appalled during the Christmas Holidays at the amount of time and money people put into decoration.   Christmas tree and sometimes I splurge on a poinsettia to support some random cause or buy $90 dollars worth of cookies to support United Way!  That is about the limit of my decorating. I used put out a little nativity in the house but after Isis killed one of the 3 wise-men, I don't put that out anymore.  I am certain that they would all die, given the opportunity.  It could be the wise-man saw Isis coming and just committed suicide.

With so many people starving, dying, needing medication in the world, it seems stupid to spend large sums of money so that their house can be seen from space.  What?  Do you want to attract aliens?  Cuz, they always wind up being the ones that suck your brains and harvest your organs.  Then were do you store the decorating crap when you are done?  I will pass on the massive decorating phenomenon that grips the United States, it would seem for every holiday now.

Christmas is for Nick, he does not care if the house is lit up for space ship landings, he wants a quite reflective Christmas, a few presents to gnaw on, a few ornaments to leave in various areas of the house, maybe a cookie or two, but most of all to have mommy and daddy to snuggle to him and read.

If Christmas is all about family, why do we spend our time at Walmart packing our carts?