I wish I still believed in Santa Claus...

[Winter Storm]

...cause I'd be sooo excited right now, instead of...ya know... not.

I was just remembering those days and how exciting Christmas Eve was and the anticipation that came with Christmas Day. Now it just feels like another day with a brief get together. Oh and some gifts.

Whoop de doo! :rolleyes: :neutral:

[pisces2473]

Seriously! I was on my way to my grandfather's this afternoon, and I saw a little boy on a trike with his mom. She must have taken him out for a ride to distract him. I would have been SOOOOO excited if I were him, waiting for Santa and all of that. I also saw a little boy last night when I was out to dinner and he was all bouncy about Santa coming.

[biodork]

Yeah my parents bought a ton of stuff for my young cousins, it just reminded me of back when I was just so excited to open up presents after dinner xmas eve and then in the morning. And Christmas Mouse!

[mishl982]

I'm with you all. It just doesn't seem like Christmas this year.

[PenforPrez]

I'm with you all. It just doesn't seem like Christmas this year.

I've had the same thought repeatedly. :surprised

[Winter Storm]

And Christmas Mouse!

Uhhh, Christmas mouse??

Yeah, my mom called earlier saying the same thing and its unusual for my mother to not be in the spirit. I laid around the house all day (long night) and relectantly finished wrapping my last gifts and just wasn't into it. It's weird. The tree has been up, gifts are wrapped and ready to go, Ie ven listened to my usual carols this year but, I don't know, just doesnt' quite feel like a big holiday.

But I'm going to make the best of it tomorrow. I have a feeling it will be a good day regardless.

[TinyDancer]

I still get excited like a little kid for Christmas though. . . because it's a chance for me to see my family. I miss them dearly living far away. It sounds cheesy, but spending time with them is the best gift I could give. They are just so damn fun.

Plus, get this. . . my connecting flight got canceled coming home for Christmas. I just wanted to break down and cry. . . ESPECIALLY considering that the plane was getting ready to land in my town, but they decided that visability was too low and took us aaaalllllllllllll the way back to our origin. I was stuck ~6 hours from home. . . and there were no rentals cars to be had. :( This random girl from my flight had a car at her house and offered to drive me the 6 hours! How nice was that??? Thanks to this stranger, I've spent the past two days with my family rather than in an airport.

I've been surrounded by examples of people doing really nice things for others this year, which helps me get in the spirit more than anything else.

[pisces2473]

I think that if my family was farther away, I might be more in the spirit/excited. I see my family all of the time, and the ones I don't see, live far away and probably won't see them for awhile. That's what skews my holiday spirit.

[coll214]

I see my family not a whole lot despite being in the same state/area, so it is nice to get together but this year def. feels off. Alot of that has to deal with family dysfunction that becomes glaringly obvious this time of year... but ehh I deal.

I just remember WANTING to go to sleep early so Santa could come. And my mom loves telling the story of when i was about 3-4 and asked her why her and Santa used the same wrapping paper :). From then on she knew better :p.

[pisces2473]

Ha, Coll....I remember asking one year why Santa shopped at Child World. My mom left a tag on something! LOL

My mom also didn't wrap a lot of toys, saying "Santa doesn't wrap." LOL I think that was her way out of wrapping all the little Matchbox cars and Barbie clothes.

[biodork]

Uhhh, Christmas mouse??
:p

My parents would take one present each for my brother and I, and they would write clues for us that took us around the house to find the present. It was the "christmas mouse" who would do that.

[TinyDancer]

:p

My parents would take one present each for my brother and I, and they would write clues for us that took us around the house to find the present. It was the "christmas mouse" who would do that.
That's so cute! :)

[pisces2473]

Was that Santa's buddy or something?

[Winter Storm]

My mom also didn't wrap a lot of toys, saying "Santa doesn't wrap." LOL I think that was her way out of wrapping all the little Matchbox cars and Barbie clothes.

My presents also weren't wrapped from Santa. but what I didn't buy was that we didn't have a chimney at my house so I asked my mother how Santa got in. She claimed he rang the doorbell int he middle of the night and let him in. I got suspicious. My mother getting up in the middle of the night to open the door. Uh uh! :rolleyes:

[NewMrs.]

Ha, Coll....I remember asking one year why Santa shopped at Child World. My mom left a tag on something! LOL

My mom also didn't wrap a lot of toys, saying "Santa doesn't wrap." LOL I think that was her way out of wrapping all the little Matchbox cars and Barbie clothes.


My MIL told us last night that once when she was a kid, she woke up in the middle of the night on Christmas Eve and caught her mom wrapping presents. Her mom told her that Santa Claus was running late so he asked her to help out and wrap the presents.

One of my friends found out that Santa Claus was her parents when she went up into her parents' attic and found "Santa's" wrapping paper stored up there.

[Krishna]

My dad apparently still gets excited. He woke us up at 7am this morning...

[Irish79]

I was thinking the same thing about how Christmas used to be so exciting. Now it seems that all of the magic is gone - this year has been hard for me to get in the Christmas spirit too despite decorating and listening to Christmas music - oh well.

[biodork]

Was that Santa's buddy or something?
Yeah he was Santa's buddy hehe.

[wordsmith]

My sister is the baby of the family, and the ongoing joke was always that when my brothers and I were of an age where we were more interested in sleeping in than getting up early and opening presents, she was still young and way excited. She'd keep after us and not give up until we were all up, usually insanely early. The joke is STILL that "B's gonna get us all up at the crack of dawn to open presents." And, she does.

[pisces2473]

Ha Words, my brother is the same way. I almost expected a phone call at 7am yesterday morning with my brother asking when we were coming over. Thankfully, he did not call!

[Skyblade]

I was the youngest so I used to be the one waking everyone up. My brother is impossible to get up!

[wordsmith]

There's never been a year in my life I haven't spent Christmas eve at my parents' house.

[EmberMae]

Yeah, Christmas has gotten really tired and routine around my house. Without any young children, we are really in need of some new traditions. It's okay, but it isn't amazing like it was when I was a kid. Even when I didn't believe in santa claus, when I was around 11 or so, it was still really fun.

[wordsmith]

We've actually had to consciously work on building new traditions, because things change when people get married, start their own families, pass away, etc. and aren't around for the old traditions. My mom's big thing is, "You can't take something away without leaving something in it's place," so we've been starting new traditions to help offset the ways our family has changed, so we don't have to feel bereft when things can't be the way they once were, and you have gaping holes left behind.

[pisces2473]

Yeah, Jess, that's a good point that your mom makes. C & I spent Xmas eve by ourselves this year, which was really nice (I did go out to my grandfather's for a few hours to see him) but we didn't rush around from my family to his family to church, etc. We took naps, ate leftovers, watched movies, and at midnight, opened our gifts. Then we went to bed, woke up, and went to my parents' for dinner and his dad's for dessert. Very nice.