Christmas is coming and ................
Don't get me wrong, Christmas is still a great family time, but it's the build up that is beginning to tee me off.
It just seems that Christmas has been building up since last year. Christmas Cards for sale in July, trees from September. It just seems to me that it is just the money that counts now.
The pressure to buy your loved ones that "special gift" (as long as its the most expensive item on that shops shelf) seems to be un-avoidable and insatiable, and it goes on for months.
As you can possibly guess, I'm a great believer in what I would call the "real reason" for Christmas.
Being with your Family, having "quality" time with the Kids. I have actually got some good time off work this year, Cathy, although working some of Christmas, still has the "best"parts of Christmas. The Kids opening their presents, meeting and greeting the ones you care for on Christmas Day.
We've already been to several Christmas Parties and a Panto. This I like. Its' family, it's fun.
I don't want to be Scrooge like, and I don't think that I am per-say. It's just the commercialisation of the Season that wears me down.
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