Christmas Day

Word has it that we’ll be meeting at the Fugee Caaa…. I mean, Gramma’s House on Christmas Day. The menu will be decidedly Mexican in type, and I’m sure plenty of related sweetness will be on hand before, during, and after.

That's gonna be good times!

If I might offer an editorial comment to this post: tell your wonderful children, siblings, etc to leave his or her new toys at home. As it is, we spend money on them throughout the year, and then we use Christmas as an excuse to buy them more junk.

While I personally think we ought to be putting money elsewhere (into savings bonds, education accounts, etc) for the younglings, this isn’t the point of this comment. Rather, it’s that not all kids are able to get the same toys, or as many toys as the next one. Don’t remind any kid, whether they are 3 or 13, that they might not have as many possessions as the next one.

You see, adults can appreciate what someone else owns, and the work (or even luck) that likely went into it. But kids don’t yet know tact, they don’t know kindness—and they often flaunt what they have.

It was only in the last couple years that I realized this. Two cousins were playing with each other on Christmas Day and one said, “I have to go to _____ to get more presents.” And they said this while the second cousin watched the first play with new toys—the second having not gotten as many presents, nor ones that were as cool.

I’m not going to blame the kid for saying it, however. Children aren’t mature enough to understand all that they say or do.

So, yeah—leave the toys at home. And, in doing so, you might teach your kid that Christmas is about more than presents. Such as, for instance, being together with family.

See y’all then, hopefully sooner!