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#134123 - 12/18/07 03:14 PM
Re: turkeyless- but still Christmas meal, fun
[Re: jawjaw]
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Registered: 08/22/07
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Loc: Southern Maine, USA
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We have a very rude bumper sticker up here for summer tourists that says
"Welcome to Maine!
Now go home!!"
Not very nice, is it?
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#134124 - 12/18/07 03:40 PM
Re: turkeyless- but still Christmas meal, fun
[Re: ladyjane]
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Registered: 11/15/05
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Loc: NM, transplant from NJ
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It's kinda sad. I miss Christmas so much (from the past) yet DH and do NOTHING! No decorating (I hate to put stuff up only take it down)...no visiting, no special meal nor gifts. It's just not what we see Christmas as being.
So, we hide under the blanket until Dec. 26. I wish I could afford for us to be with family. We just can't. Plus with six dogs we are tied down. (We LOVE our dogs, don't get me wrong..and would never leave them)
Just wanting to voice my sadness. I have not had a "Christmas' with family since 1992.
Not seeking solutions here....just to let others know that many are sad during this time of year. The media plays a HUGE part.
Edited by Di (12/18/07 03:41 PM)
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#134129 - 12/18/07 10:55 PM
Re: turkeyless- but still Christmas meal, fun
[Re: Di]
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Registered: 01/21/07
Posts: 3675
Loc: British Columbia, Canada
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Quote:
It's kinda sad. I miss Christmas so much (from the past) yet DH and do NOTHING! No decorating (I hate to put stuff up only take it down)...no visiting, no special meal nor gifts. It's just not what we see Christmas as being.
So, we hide under the blanket until Dec. 26. I wish I could afford for us to be with family. We just can't. Plus with six dogs we are tied down. (We LOVE our dogs, don't get me wrong..and would never leave them)
Just wanting to voice my sadness. I have not had a "Christmas' with family since 1992.
Di, would be nice you and DH just have a lovely evening meal together on Christmas Eve or Day.
I have not celebrated Christmas by myself...since it's either with my partner or earlier in life, prior to him, it was with my (big) family with siblings and all.
But am certain if one day...and it will happen decades later, that I may celebrate Christmas by myself. Then, when the time comes, Christmas does deserve a lovely meal and thoughtful contemplation --no matter where one is at, in life.
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#134130 - 12/19/07 07:08 AM
Re: turkeyless- but still Christmas meal, fun
[Re: orchid]
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Registered: 08/22/07
Posts: 1761
Loc: Southern Maine, USA
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Time IS a-wasting!! It would be easy to have a ball at Christmas....you just have to do it!! We make our own celebrations and a choice to do it. It's in the "choice" as to what and how you do it. Otherwise it becomes a game of self-pity and not positive thinking!
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#134131 - 12/21/07 02:56 AM
Re: turkeyless- but still Christmas meal, fun
[Re: ladyjane]
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The Divine Ms M
Registered: 07/07/03
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Loc: Orange County, California
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This year I donated 50 pieces of inexpensive jewelry to a local "Christmas clearinghouse" for low income families. I put them in nice gift boxes, five pieces to a box in matching sets. Because of my work schedule, I couldn't bring them in until the actual day of distribution (as opposed to the week previous.) As I was putting the lids underneath the boxes (so the contents could be seen) the little girls were oohing and aahing  and all 10 boxes were gone in 2 minutes. (The kids were allowed to choose only one thing!) Everyone (kids AND staff) kept thanking me, and I just thought, "It's such a little thing." Maybe next year I'll bring 20 boxes. 
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