Have yourself a merry little Christmas, let your heart be light, from now on, our troubles will be out of sight
I’m rather ba-humbug about Christmas this year.
Maybe it’s the fact that it’s the 21st December and I have yet to get a tree – despite last year practically getting one on the 1st.
Or maybe it’s because i’m ho-hum about the presents I’ve bought folk – not terribly inspiring I must say.
Possibly it’s because i’m worried about getting home at all for it – my parents live high up in the Pennines and are currently snowed in having fun teaching an Australian baby to sledge.
(Someone told me, or I read it somewhere, that you know that you are an adult when your first reaction when you see snow is ‘oh god’ rather than ‘oh goody’ – tramping about dirty, crowded streets in the ice and wind is not my idea of fun – give me a mountain, fresh air and quiet instead.)
If I wanted to do a little more head dabbling, I could say its because my sister en famille are over from Australia and the attention will be focused around the extended rather than the close, but that just makes me sound bitter and twisted and rather ungrateful – and i’m looking forward to giving my nephew such a hug.
But it also could be the fact that I’m working right up to Christmas Eve instead of like last year harumphing off home quick smart (after getting dumped) – there is nothing like the anticipation of Christmas sat in front of the fire with your feet up gossiping with your papa over a whiskey late at night.
But maybe, really, truthfully, its because i’m nervous of things going wrong, of putting my trust in waking up on Christmas morning with kisses and smiles and presents, of happiness and family and friends on New Year when last year was so dark and empty and cold.
But maybe this does me good to remember, as it’s so easy to forget those who are going through it very alone.
But maybe, hopefully, thankfully, this year Christmas will be a little different, a little shinier, and a little happier for us all.
Miss S xx
Christmas this year will be much more crap that last year….but ho hum!
That was mine last year hon and i got through it. This year, i hope, for me will be better and you can look back this time next year with relief as well x
Christmas last year when i was in a relationship was identical to Christmas this year. Me and the Mummy having our own private food fest and watching rubbish telly in our pyjama’s. Some traditions aren’t worth breaking for a bloke!
If you don’t like your family’s traditions though, start your own
Smidgers, I *love* snow. I love it to bits. I love seeing it and driving in it and ski-ing on it and I love it. I don’t love the way it balls up in to the hooves of my ponies, but apart from that I love it. However – believe it or not – I was completely caught out by it being Christmas Day on Friday, when I tried to book my car in for a service over the weekend, for Friday and was told by the garage that they’d be shut! So not humbug, just ‘Oh shit!.
I think you might be my twin sometimes because our posts seem to synch at times. Like our “blog stalkers”, the mention of snow, talking about christmas night outs/parties and as for feeling bah humbug about Christmas this year? I tried to write a post about this earlier but just couldn’t explain it the way I wanted to… So weird, eh? :)
I hope you have a fab Christmas!