I Don't Believe It! It's Too Soon

It used to be that the Christmas season didn't officially start until the day after our Thanksgiving, meaning the Friday after the last Thursday in November...back then they didn't even have Christmas items for sale yet. Yes, I would think the store help would go nuts having to listen to Rudolph the Red Nose Raindeer 5,000 times...LOL and it does lose the spirit of things.

that's right your birthday is near my time right? November 19th..think you mentioned Nov. 21st or is it the 28th???? Hope my memory is right.

23rd, the day after JFK and the day before my dad's

I am with you Anomalie!! How incredably stupid! Folks that are offended by our Christian beliefs don't have to follow our traditions- that's their choice. Why in the name of JESUS should we change ours for them? Good for you- I will be singing those Christmas songs right along with you!!

Wow does that ever sound like oppression to me to forbid so much where you are. I'm as you know Pagan/Wiccan and even so I LOVE the Christmas season and don't mind saying Merry Christmas instead of Happy Holdiays. And I don't get offended by seeing Creches as decoration.
They unfortunately do the same here with forbidding the showing of the creche even on church grounds....how ridiculous
Can I join you and sing those carols nice and loud? LOL

BethsMom,

Thank you! Many people feel the same. Time for a revolution!

pyewacket,

Yes, sing loud and strong.

I'm with you Anomalie! You tell me where and when and I will be there dressed as Mrs. Claus and a radio playing every holiday tune I can find!!

I like it!

As we say in the deep south of the US-- "Let's git er done." You are a card!!!

Okay...voices ready and hear we go..


Dashing through the snow
In a one horse open sleigh
O'er the fields we go
Laughing all the way
Bells on bob tails ring
Making spirits bright
What fun it is to laugh and sing
A sleighing song tonight

Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh

Tell ya what, y'all...why don't we form a caroling group (a little more into the SEASON.../o), & invade other topics & SIIIING!

Maybe they'd give us to hot cocoa (or at least some figgy pudding) to make us leave? LOL!

Lalalalalaaaaaa!!!

Maggiepie

Maggie--- great idea!

Maggiepie...

Great idea, but I have a voice like a concrete mixer. I'll be there just to turn the pages.

Concrete mixer?? Ok-- no ones voice is that bad! Even if it were, it's the Christmas season-- sing anyway!

I might dance instead.

I didn't even think of dance!! Great idea:)

Is this where I sign up for the caroling group?

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Where the treetops glisten
And children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white.

Yes roll up and sign up!
Good choice of song because it has the forbidden word in it.

Yup Howard this is the place to sign up for caroling.
What is the forbidden word? Christmas????

Yup!

Hi friends,

You know I was not born prejudice, but I have certainly grown to be. All these immigrants come into our country and we can't say Merry Christmas anymore, they've taken out the Lord's Prayer in the schools. I am so sick to death of this. If you come here, then you'd better pick up on our beliefs and our ways or go back to your country and do your own thing.

Sick to death

Cheryl

Same about The Lord's Prayer here Cher. I think it's all a huge pity.

I honestly don't understand why we all have to be so politically correct. I think it's the governments who are dictating all this garbage. A lot of the New Australians say they enjoy all our customs and don't want them to be taken away and they are tired of getting the blame.

Well it certainly doesn't get me in the mood to spend money for Christmas...don't buy much anyway and usually make my gifts. Nope I don't see how the Christmas season is shorter...if anything it seems longer to me.

Well, I'd expected to be able to give a lot of gifts this year. But that was before I got scammed & plummeted into debt.

Oh, well. Mebbe NEXT year...sigh....

Maggiepie

Ekkkk! Gee when you say it's only seven weeks away, then it does seem like it's not too far away...I just can't really get into the Christmas season until after our Thanksgiving though, or at least by December 1st

Gemini,

Love that pretty rainbow avatar....

WOULD YOU BELIEVE, here in Austin, people are so danged "laid back" they just never bother to take the lights DOWN?

It's like no-one gives a tinker's dam about traditions any more. Yeesh.

Maggiepie

I just can't get into the holiday spirit until after Thanksgiving though, the traditional time that it was to start the season. Heck, I still have my Halloween decorations up, plan to change it to a fall/Thanksgiving theme..but nope, not Christmas. In fact in my mother's time one didn't even get the tree until Christmas eve.

I don't get into the Christmas mood until about January 5th, and then the feeling quickly passes...

Barbara,

Wotta co-inkydink! January 6th is epiphany on the modern GREGORIAN calendar, but on the old JULIAN one, which most Orthodox follow, it's December 23th--Christmas Eve!

Also my B'day..../o)

Maggiepie (who'll be 61 in ought-9)

LOL--I still have my Halloween decorations up...heehee. So nope...I usually don't start decorating my home Christmasy until the second week of December...I may be of Pagan/wiccan faith but I still like to celebrate the Christmas season.

Yeah it's ridiculous...it's way too soon...listening to them so early actually puts me in a lousy mood..LOL

Ohhh Scrouge!:)

Come on!! Get in the mood! The Christmas season is the most special of all seasons-- smile and forget about your day to day crap!:) (even though you will resist this: I am singing Merry Christmas to you right now!!)

Come on Anomalie-- join in with me!

BethsMom..to be honest as much as I do love Christmas carols hearing them so early puts me in a grumpy, ba-humbug mood..LOL

I think everyone forgets what this holiday is about! I don't fall for all the advertised crap-- I like the feeling in my heart! I give thanks for the Joy of the Lord! That's it-- just feel the joy and ignore all the stores who are just trying to get you to buy something. That's not what this holiday is about.

I don't really get into the Christmas mood until maybe the first week of December to be honest...that's been the tradition my family always has had.

Maybe doing it a little earlier will put you in a better mood now? Come on, sing with me: dashing threw the snow, in a one horse open sleigh...

Maybe I just don't get into the Christmas spirit earlier since I always get a real tree...so the spirit of Christmas isn't there until then...I usually don't get the tree until around the 10th of December...that way the tree stays fresher longer and past New Year's