Well I have to say most of you have convinced me to reconsider hating Christmas.
Ok, Ok...I will try to love Christmas by not spending another minute worrying about stupid stuff and just enjoy the time with friends and family.
A little background on why I'm double stressed this year: The day before Thanksgiving my son had a tread-separation tire accident. He did not get hurt, but it's put stress on us because we had to pay to get his car fixed and to top it all off, Wal Mart would not replace this 2 month old tire that completely fell apart. They are making me deal directly with Michelin, who sent me a letter stating I would have to send them the tire via UPS, along with 2 estimates of repair and invoice for the replacement tire...and they would pay me back for shipping later, and they may or may not replace the tire depending on if they think it was some fault of my son's that their tire fell apart. Oh, and I have to do all this in 30 days or they will consider it an abandoned case. My son is still driving on the spare tire because it was all we could do to fix the undercarriage of his car. So, I have to replace the tire and send the invoice to even get consideration for them to replace it. I can't tell you how much I'm burned up about this! Then my youngest daughter got a toothache last weekend and ended up having a root canal that my insurance paid alot of, but I had to use money I had put away to pay my car insurance bill (which is not cheap with two teenagers on the policy) which is due next week. So several hundred dollars spent in the past few weeks and still have "Christmas" to do. Still have a tire and rim to buy, still have a tooth crown to buy...I'm just not feeling Christmas. This will be the year of tires and teeth. Yet I'm still expected to make dishes to bring to family functions and church functions and gifts...arrrrrgh.
Ok, but starting right now, I'm going to love the reason for the season....sorry for venting. I know my life could be much, much worse. Thank you Lord for our family's good health (except dental) and thank you that we have a roof over our heads and warm clothes and sweet puppies!