Lonely This Christmas
Gosh, I've neglected this blog way too long now, been so busy getting my new game site TrafficGamers.com up and running and it's new blog installed that I've forgotten almost everything else.
Mind you, I've had plenty of time to work on my internet stuff the past week due to not having ANY parental responsibilities at all over the Christmas period. I didn't even do Christmas this year, what a bummer that was!
The plan was to try to forget about it because I feel it has become way too commercialised these days, so I didn't do any shopping this year and I let my 4 kids go to France to spend the holiday with their Gran.
Didn't really miss all the hustle and bustle at all, and saved a lot of money too. But OMG! I missed the kids like crazy! Cried most of Christmas Eve, stayed up all night, cried All Christmas morning and then went to bed and slept away the rest of the day.
My fiance (Hugh) did exactly the same. :p
I thought I was doing right by the kids and my mum, but ya know what? Next year she can come see us instead, cos I don't ever want to spend another Christmas without em!
So yeah, even though it's all 'buy this, buy that', I'll definitely be doing a 'normal' Christmas next year! There's still just something special about the whole thing, and I'm not ever going to miss it again!
Anna
(looking forward to using all that saved money in the 'after Christmas' sales, to have Christmas in January instead LOL)
Please do feel free to leave me a comment and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.
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Mind you, I've had plenty of time to work on my internet stuff the past week due to not having ANY parental responsibilities at all over the Christmas period. I didn't even do Christmas this year, what a bummer that was!
The plan was to try to forget about it because I feel it has become way too commercialised these days, so I didn't do any shopping this year and I let my 4 kids go to France to spend the holiday with their Gran.
Didn't really miss all the hustle and bustle at all, and saved a lot of money too. But OMG! I missed the kids like crazy! Cried most of Christmas Eve, stayed up all night, cried All Christmas morning and then went to bed and slept away the rest of the day.
My fiance (Hugh) did exactly the same. :p
I thought I was doing right by the kids and my mum, but ya know what? Next year she can come see us instead, cos I don't ever want to spend another Christmas without em!
So yeah, even though it's all 'buy this, buy that', I'll definitely be doing a 'normal' Christmas next year! There's still just something special about the whole thing, and I'm not ever going to miss it again!
Anna
(looking forward to using all that saved money in the 'after Christmas' sales, to have Christmas in January instead LOL)
Please do feel free to leave me a comment and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.
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Labels: christmas, christmas day, christmas eve, christmas sales, kids christmas
posted by
Anna at 11:40 PM
Comments:
It really has turned into a commercial holiday, but through it all, there still remains the magic, the joy, the feeling of Christmas. I'll bet it was tough. Sometimes we just don't understand something until it's gone, for you in this case, it was Christmas. Screw the commercialism. Make it your own.
Cool story.
Johnny
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