Be honest, Do you really Enjoy Christmas? (page 4)

Grammy

Yes, I have always loved Christmas and I really missed it while a JW. To me it was never about anything except a time to spend happy times with family and friends having good food, listening to good music and sharing gifts....religion was not involved in it for me. We never go overboard with the gifts or go in debt to buy them, often times gifts are hand made and home baked special things or something the person really wanted and could use that did not cost a great deal of money with the exception of a few special toys for the little ones. Now I have two precious great grandchildren and I have lost two of my three sons to death and spending time with my family means more than it ever has before. Grammy Sandi

White Dove

I love X-mas for all of the reasons given: family, friends, food, drink, music (ok, so now I can't hear it, so what! I can still sing it.). I'm having fun making it the way I want it, not the way the mall or Hallmark wants me to make it. This is our 2nd Christmas since leaving in 2005. The first one felt surreal. Since each one of us makes our own Christmas celebrations, we have to come up with the meaning it has for us oursleves. Christmas sucked your whole life? Reinvent it: no field service on Christmas day, for example. Make a plan for a successful celebration your style. I'm starting from scratch as I grew up a JW. I secretly loved Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas my whole life. I saw what I was missing and was livid about it. Now I can have it and leave the commercialism out of it as much as I want. About all of the 'I's in this note, Christmas is such a personal event that one shares with others that if you leave yourself out of it and only consentrate on others, you will be miserable. Do it your way and share the joy:)

Happy Christmas and New Year and all of those other previously forbidden wishes!

delilah

I love everything about it..... ....runs off to decorate some more...

onacruse

bikerchic and I enjoy it!...although she does most of the work.

But we don't feel compelled, either. Last year, we didn't do any decorating to speak of, because we just didn't feel like it. This year we're all decked out.

I like the twinkly little lights.

Maddie

When I was a child I loved Christmas. I got so excited waiting for Santa to come and it was a nice family affair. Now I think it is far too commercialised and the pressure for many people to spend lots of money they haven't got is terrible. I still love the decorations and christmas tree with all the pretty lights, giving out cards and presents though.

Maddie

Dorktacular

I like Christmas.... the kind of Christmas they show in old movies. I like my Christmas tree and Christmas music and all that stuff. I love having time to be with family. I don't like how commercial it has become, though. I don't like all of the commercials that flat out tell us guys that we're the lowest of scum unless we spend (or have the money to spend) hundreds or thousands of dollars on jewelry for our female-type-companions for Christmas every year. I don't like how everyone feels pressured to buy stuff that they can't afford, and not just for the kids anymore. They want you to buy tons of crap for everyone you know, everyone you work with and everyone you might have made eye contact with on the grocery store for the last 10 years. That stuff makes me sick. I, for one, don't want anyone to buy me anything for Christmas. I'm much happier with friends and family having a good time together. I buy my daughter whatever I can afford and something for the wife if I can, and that's it. To me, the most important thing on Christmas morning is that my family is there and that there isn't one less family member there than there was last year. Eat some ham, watch It's A Wonderful Life and A Christmas Story and watch the kids play with their toys. Yep, that's the greatest thing in the world. Besides sex. Which is also nice to get on Christmas day. Just a tip for the ladies: Sex is free and he'd much rather have that than another stupid tie. Seriously. It's the gift that keeps on giving all year long. Merry Chrismas!

restrangled

I love decorating the tree, the ambience it gives the room and just the feeling from everyone at this time of year. I love the music, scents, and good food. I love baking extra goodies, making special dinners, the invites, the cards, etc.

For me it is a celebration of another year, and letting everyone you know and love they are special to you.

After growing up a JW and watching my Elder dad get spectacular gifts from his employer and the joy it brought our family.....I find it sickening the JWs dread this entire month and deny the reality of it.

It is not about the gifts, or Christ's Birthday for a lot of people...... its about the shared good feelings between friends, neighbors, and strangers.

My die hard JW mom even says every year......"I feel the celebration spirit".....I want to do something. But ofcourse she can't.

r.

mrsjones5

I really enjoy it, I really do...no guilt. I got married in the month of December because I love the season.

worldtraveller

They get so stressed by it all that they secretly admire us (J W's) and wish they could join us and not celebrate"- - - are you kidding me? Join the most mindnumbingly boring and uninteresting group in the world? I'd rather watch a chick flick. Ya it's fun hiding in your own home while others celebrate their lives with friends and family.

KW13

I love Christmas and i love the feeling it gives a home but i dont get the Christmas bug like i did prior to being a witness. I don't think its all to do with growing up, i think that the real important parts of Christmas were pulled apart and for years i believed it, its probably going to take a good while before i get back to loving it again - saying that, first Christmas with Baby Noah this year which will make all the difference!!

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