Nephew

making sure he is not on the naughty list and that santa has the correct address. 

He’s actually looking a the track santa site.

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The real reason for the season:

   Often time we forget that Christmas is about the birth of Christ  and not the birth of a BIG sale at some department or toy store.  I see all the commercials ads, the circulars that come in the mail with the “one time only” sales (that seem to happen every month anyway) or the “new” low prices that are offered…yeah riiight. 

   I stopped buying into the whole buying x-amount of christmas gifts hoop-la years ago (of course as a child I love love love it but I’ve since digressed) and I realize that it’s not about how many gifts you get or give this time of year but more so the mood and moments that we have with others…family, friends etc.  

   I expressed to my then boyfriend now hubby that I want all this gift and present giving on my birthday, the day I was born… I want to be celebrated and praised upon because it is a special day for me and others around me to know that on this day I was born into this world and I have a purpose because God said so (just so you know I am sitting with great posture  and I typed that sentence with great pride ) and I am worthy of being celebrated because this day belongs to meee (and others with the same date but blah blah blah whatever).

   So I celebrate Christmas with one or 2 gifts to family and close friends,  I celebrate the feeling that this time of year gives me and it’s not about gifts or presents in abundance. 

   I’m not bah-hum-buggin on buying or spending during this time of year but I am just looking at how commercialized the season has become and how our children are greedy for stuff just to have, no recognition of the reason for “Christmas”. 

Christmas literally means the Mass (celebration) of Christ

(I don’t see department store advertising that)

Soo-oo-oooo… here is one of my favorite movies and one of the best scenes from it that really expalins it all:

HAVE A HAPPY HOLIDAY EVERYONE!!

ME-Pookie’san & Shelby-Rae♥

Favorites @ Christmas Time

Song(s): Luther Vandross “Every year, Every Christmas” ,Cece Winans ” O Holy Night“, Nat King Cole “The Christmas Song“

Moment(s): Christmas eve, right before midnight of christmas morn.  Being with family…especially Pookie’san.

Attire/outfit: red flannel pj bottoms, bob marley tee-shirt & cozy red booties…and call it a day.

Drink: Spiked Egg Nog

Activity: Riding around at night to look at decorated houses.

Tradition: open one gift on Christmas eve.  

Movie(s): “Scrooged“, “ELF“, “Fred Claus“, “This Christmas“ , “Miracle on 34th street” 1947 & 1994.

Scents: The smell of my grandads’ ”old spice” cologne ….wow, that takes me back.

Christmas morning: Go stand outside and breathe in all that cold air of Christmas day.

ahhh, that’s all

Dinner @ Christmas time…

 

Do you follow tradition or do you/ have you gone out on a limb and started your own traditional meal? 

I’m not a turkey eater at Christmas time, hell I just had it, lots of it, for Thanksgiving..seriously how many ways can you stuffed a turkey.  We do hearty meals for christmas dinner, my favorite is chicken/dressing overstuffed pasted shells as a main dish and sides will include rice, brocoli & honey carrots, cranberries, yams (not all the time) and  dinner rolls.  That’s yuuuumy fo yo tummy right there.

Normally the side will stay the same as traditional holiday meals but I will change-up the main dishes…open face turkey, crab stuffed tilapia, baked chicken (you get the idea NO TURKEY) etc…etc…etc.  Maybe some ham, I’m not a huge ham eater, a few slices and I’m good.

This year will be the overstuffed pasta shells ( I know I am planning early).  Just some food for thought.

Elf packing some heat (only in ATL)

Was he on the naughty list?  Did he not get hugged enough as a child??? What is really going on…?

Dynamite toting elf

Someone should have taken their damn belt off and spanked that ass.