Ahhh! Christmas is in four more days! Yes, I have most of my shopping completed, I just need to figure out what to get the three kids I used to babysit every week for several years (and now I give them piano..). They already have absolutely everything! I am at a complete loss and I go to their house on Tuesday. Help. I also need to get something for the dirty santa exchange that we're doing with family on Christmas day. I completely forgot about that until.....yesterday.
We've been busy making cookies, watching Christmas movies (Elf, Christmas Story, A Christmas Carol...), shopping, listening to Christmas music. I just seems like maybe this year (even more than in the past) I'm just going through the motions. Trying to cram all of our usual traditions into the few days that we have left. I've been anxious about several things (the biggest one being classes next semester, and not wanting to do college at all) and I think I've just been kind of ignoring the real reason for Christmas. Most times I don't feel like having my quiet time or anything. I really don't want that to happen.
Does anyone else feel this way? Like you know that Christmas is supposed to be this special holiday where we celebrate Christs birth, but there's just too much to do that you don't care about anything else? I've been realizing lately how selfish I am and I think that is one of the biggest things that I personally need to change in my life. I think I need to just stop. Go back to the Bible. Remind myself what Christmas is really all about.
This is seriously a miraculous holiday. Starting tonight I'm going to spend time reading about what happened on Christmas night all the long ago.
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