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Originally Posted by Jasper_and_Mom  I used to LOVE Christmas as a child... how many kids don't??? I remember starting to feel like I didn't like it anymore after my grandmother died on Christmas Day when I was in my late 20's. For the next few years Christmas always reminded me of losing someone I valued immensely. After that it just became a chore - stressed out about money, stressed out about trying to be in a million places at one time... his family, my family... and now that I'm divorced and remarried........... it seems like time has become even more precious. We moved to Massachusetts from Michigan a year an a half ago. We are going home for Christmas this year (last year we couldn't) and I'm finding that even our respective kids are finding it difficult to "work us in" to the schedule. It depresses me........... |
Exactly! It feels like more work than fun, and costs us too much money and is over in 1 day.