The Synergistic Pen

OK... so I had my almost adult children open their presents Christmas Eve so I wouldn't have to be disturbed Christmas Morning.... that worked out well, they sat up half the night playing with the new Wii...

So... this morning I laid in bed staring at the ceiling and considered the day....

Christmas... I've lived through quite a few of them, happily, sadly, indifferently...

Those who get "up" for the day have spend weeks now telling me I should "celebrate"...

naturally I ask, celebrate what?

"Why Jesus' birth of course!"

"Why?"

"What do you mean "why"?"

"Well, I celebrate the life and teachings of Jesus everyday...so, to simply celebrate his birthday seems so... anticlimatic..."


Silence...

No offense nice people reading this (does anyone ever read my stuff, I wonder... oh well) I haven't put up a christmas tree in 9 years now; I haven't showed up for advent services or religious events or pagaents or things of that sort for years....

I DID go to a "christmas party"... that was fun... I got drunk...danced and did some karoake...

I've endured multiple versions of the same 15 most popular Christmas songs of all times, watched all the cool animated shows I loved watching as a child and even sent my mother a Christmas card...

Yet, at the end of it all... I smiled at the quiet of my house, my life, my spiritual health this morning...I sat at a table with my father's two remaining siblings and laughed about Christmas' past, and hung out with cousins and their small children as they played with their new toys and games...

I watched my daughter make plans to "hang out" later in the evening... and my son catch his best friend who moved away last year up on the neighborhood news...

No stressed out, overindulgence in shopping malls.
No sending cards to people who don't even acknowledge my existence the rest of the year...
No phone calls to say Merry Christmas to people I'd normally only call to get information from... and nothing else...

It was nice...
I went over the details of how Jesus came into the world... again...
I listened to my Handel's Messiah CD... immediately followed by the annual listening of my Charlie Brown CD...

and now... I"m watching a Mythbusters Marathon on Discovery.

So, THIS is Christmas...

I like it...

Happy Christmas, Merry New Year everyone!