Comments on: The Holidays are Coming – Save Me! http://2witches.com/blog/life-family/the-holidays-are-coming-save-me/ Pagan Family Life, with a Wiccan slant Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:20:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: phoenix2327 http://2witches.com/blog/life-family/the-holidays-are-coming-save-me/comment-page-1/#comment-15000 phoenix2327 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:48:38 +0000 http://2witches.com/blog/?p=5404#comment-15000 Hello, Mama Kelly. I hope your Thanksgiving was joyful and bountiful. Oh you remind me of my mother-in-law. Every year she would run herself ragged preparing for Christmas. Shopping for gifts, hiding them in the 'scary' attic so the grandkids wouldn't go snooping, buying food for Christmas dinner, decorating the house, wrappping everyone's gifts (and I do mean everyone's, depite both her daughters-in-law insistence that we could wrap own gifts and take some of the pressure off her). And then on the day, she would be up at 0dark00 to get the turkey and ham in the oven, and prepare snacks for everyone who came to visit. Although she seemed to be like a headless chicken at times, not once did she ever ask for help and she always turned down offers of help. Christmas was her 'thing'. It was her time to shine. She was a good mother to her sons, a joy to her grandchildren and her sons' wives were the envy of other brides who wished thay could've had a mother-in-law like her. I don't know why she felt she had to shine, when she always did anyway. I suspect you feel the same way and not just about just Christmas. I think you feel that holidays are the time to show everybody just what you got. And you certainly have a lot. You've got good a good family, good friends...a good life. Seriously you do. So please forgive me if I read about your streesful holiday preparations with a grain of salt. I think you love it really and if everything went smoothly, it just wouldn't be feel like Christmas. (lol) Blessings on you and yours for a wonderful Yule. Hello, Mama Kelly. I hope your Thanksgiving was joyful and bountiful. Oh you remind me of my mother-in-law. Every year she would run herself ragged preparing for Christmas. Shopping for gifts, hiding them in the ’scary’ attic so the grandkids wouldn’t go snooping, buying food for Christmas dinner, decorating the house, wrappping everyone’s gifts (and I do mean everyone’s, depite both her daughters-in-law insistence that we could wrap own gifts and take some of the pressure off her). And then on the day, she would be up at 0dark00 to get the turkey and ham in the oven, and prepare snacks for everyone who came to visit.

Although she seemed to be like a headless chicken at times, not once did she ever ask for help and she always turned down offers of help. Christmas was her ‘thing’. It was her time to shine. She was a good mother to her sons, a joy to her grandchildren and her sons’ wives were the envy of other brides who wished thay could’ve had a mother-in-law like her. I don’t know why she felt she had to shine, when she always did anyway.

I suspect you feel the same way and not just about just Christmas. I think you feel that holidays are the time to show everybody just what you got. And you certainly have a lot. You’ve got good a good family, good friends…a good life. Seriously you do.

So please forgive me if I read about your streesful holiday preparations with a grain of salt. I think you love it really and if everything went smoothly, it just wouldn’t be feel like Christmas. (lol)

Blessings on you and yours for a wonderful Yule.

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