[quote=svelte][quote=scaredyclassic]
Well I spoke too soon…
I m in a great mood. Went for a long hike on the pacific crest trail yesterday with the whole family, eldest is off from college, was freezing, had decent Pho afterwards, everyone was happy together. Why wait for Christmas though for family togetherness or loving mood? It’s either there all the time or it’s probably fake.[/quote]
Glad the mood hit you. And no worries about what you spend on gifts, that’s really not important at all. We have years we spend a lot and years we spend a little, and no difference in the happiness either way. We just go with the flow.
Per the family togetherness all the time – well you can say that right now cuz your kids are unmarried and childless. Wait until there are other families involved, maybe at considerable distance from your own….Your kids, grandkids, other families, weather and money and job and schedule constraints, on and on. Togetherness gets a lot harder to achieve and really only possible on rare occasions through the year, when businesses shut down and force downtime on the masses. Though I don’t celebrate Christmas per se, I do celebrate the holidays and appreciate the synched downtime that a majority population of one religion affords us.
And I appreciate your humor in the other posts, many in this thread even, that make me chuckle though I usually don’t post a response. Keep on keepin on scaredy![/quote]
That’s true. We will not always be this spatially close..spent Xmas at the inlaws. There were many dozens of returning nieces nephews and other relations crammed in a tiny house, spilling into the yard. I definitely like my little nuclear family way better than any of them! Would be sad to not have my people close. Wife is conditioning them constantly that we may have to move in with them. They seem accepting. So long as we rotate. Of course, they’re not married. Any agreement they make is nonbinding.
I guess what I mean is we shouldn’t force the holidays to be more than they are whatever that is. Low expectations.
We took home several hundred dollars worth of gifts and gave so little. I felt bad. Wife said, don’t worry about it. I like my crazy wife too.
