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After my whiney IWSG post last week, I decided writers need to be bold. We need to be fearless in our willingness to take on the controversies of our day and take a firm position and admit what is in our hearts and stand by those opinions even if we have to dodge arrows that may be slung our way.
Are you ready for this?
Thanksgiving can kiss Santa's ample ass. In a smack down between Christmas and Thanksgiving, Christmas wins mittens down. It is 'Tis the Season'! Grab that tree any time you feel like it and start tossing that tinsel.
I support you.
Christmas is the season of joy, the promise of forgiveness, and the gift unconditional love. I'll #celebrate that any day, every day.
For anyone I've offended, I'll add a shout out for old Tom Turkey. I do appreciate Thanksgiving. I need that big meal as fuel for all the shopping, baking, and partying the ultimate holiday deserves.
Whew. Glad to get that off my chest. Thanks for listening. Feel free to disagree in the comments. I support a world full of free thinkers.
Christmas is a celebration of something much, much bigger!
ReplyDeleteHallejula, Amen!
DeleteSounds good to me!
ReplyDeleteLook at me building my tribe!
DeleteBeautiful post
ReplyDeleteThank you!
DeleteThank you. I so happy to hear someone take a stand on this issue. #TeamChristmas
ReplyDeleteDarned tootin' Team Christmas! No more living on fear. Jingle all the way, every day.
DeleteWith the holiday push starting so soon, we miss the anticipation of the holidays when the season is rolled into Merry Thanksgivoween. We don't seem to be able to savor each holiday. Halloween, building up to Thanksgiving and building up to Christmas. Maybe I'm just too old.
ReplyDeleteYou're not too old! You obviously have a refined sense of holiday separation. My mother used to cherish and celebrate each and every one. I'm too lazy for that. I'm good with decorating once in a big way.
Delete*faints* ;)
ReplyDeleteI'll grab the smelling salts!
DeleteThanksgiving is just the USA. Christmas and the celebration of Christ's birthday is a gift to the whole world.
ReplyDeleteExcellent point!
DeleteI'm sure those turkeys are right there with ya on kissing off Thanksgiving:) Grin.
ReplyDeleteSandra
DeleteHaha I love Thanksgiving, but it's a day. Christmas is a season, and a season is three months. I get so irritated when people try to shut down someone else's enjoyment of Christmas by saying that it has to wait until after Thanksgiving. Well, Canada has a Thanksgiving Day too, and it's the second week of October. Why should we have to wait to celebrate for six weeks?
ReplyDeleteThe only way I will complain about anyone starting too early is if they try to make me be the one to do the work. If it's no skin off my nose, I'm fine with whatever.
DeleteHi Elizabeth, Michael Di Gesu here... Problems still with signing in. UGH. Anyway... I am a HUGE Christmas person, by far my favorite holiday. BUT, I feel one should be thankful, too. Having a lovely harvest and Thanksgiving season sets the stage for the glorious coming of the Christmas season. I am one for doing each holiday as grand as one likes and to passover Thanksgiving to me, is a terrible waste. I put up my harvest/Thanksgiving decorations in September and add the Halloween in October. By the time Thanksgiving is served, I am ready to start the Christmas decorations over the weekend. This year, I will be starting NOW... out of town for bit and won't have time to do it when I get back. Am I happy about TWO WEEKS of decorating? Not really...I am one for starting on Dec 1, but that is me. I LOVE Christmas in July and cheer for people who put up their trees then and leave the up. I am also a person who leaves my decorations up until February. People who tear down the tree and decorations the day after Christmas are off. Why wouldn't you leave them up until at least New Year's? The week between Christmas and New Year's is my absolute favorite week because that is when I see family friends... they have the time then and it keeps the celebrations going... HAPPY HOLIDAYS, SWEETIE!
ReplyDeleteHey Michael! I'm sorry you're having sign-in problems. I'd offer you advice, but I am the last person to ask about tech issues.
DeleteI also decorate for Thanksgiving. I have one box for every holiday- all but Christmas. Christmas has an entire section in the storage area for all of its boxes. It is good to be thankful and take time to count the blessings. As soon as the turkey is cooked, I'm pulling out Christmas and it all stays up until after the new year. I'm with you- what's the hurry? It's the magical season!!
I don't feel that I have any skin in this game, since my family isn't religious and we don't really do Christmas anymore anyway (we used to do it in a very secular way, and it was a big day). The only time I am happy about Christmas really, is when we get to go to Canada and have a proper white Christmas! (We don't get those here in Australia)
ReplyDeleteChristmas is still a pretty big deal over here for most, but my family got tired of the consumerism of it, and since we also don't have little kids around to entertain anymore, there wasn't much point keeping a big day going.
These days usually, I will go down to the river with my mum and aunty (and maybe the odd other person present), and enjoy some champagne and orange juice, then bagels with salmon & cream cheese and capers, and fruit skewers (and some other stuff maybe). Yep, summer Christmases are weird!
This year will be just my mum and I, and we will probably just get together and not do much at all. Some may find that sad, but I do not miss the frantic days of buying gifts for what felt like 100s of people.