Christmas Countdown - 2012

Seawaters · Dec 25, 2012

Mark,
Loved your pics on FB. Thanks!

Christmasstar · Dec 25, 2012

SinatraClaus said:
Family has left ... and now things seem too calm after the two day event around here. Not sure if that's a good thing or not yet!

the calm after the party, always seems to make the house so quiet and empty. But it is a good and peaceful quiet knowing that it was a good day!

xmas365 · Dec 25, 2012

What a beautiful Christmas we had today.

I feel the Post-Christmas Blues already creeping in, especially when everyone left and again when the "A Christmas Story" marathon ended a few minutes ago.

Why does every Christmas feels like it is the best ever?
Sounds like a blog post will be coming soon.

I just love this holiday so much, the feelings it brings, the joy, the family, the bacchanalia. (Can't you tell I watched probably close to ten hours of the marathon today.)

We have another Christmas celebration to head to on Saturday with my grandparents.

Everyone stay safe who is in the path of the blizzard and the tornado warnings down south.

Good night and Merry Christmas.

:tree:

MerryCarey · Dec 25, 2012

Here is one last audio link before Christmas leaves for this year:
"Lill's Travels in Santa Claus Land"
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jomf1dtnjcye34d/Lill's Travels in Santa Claus Land.mp3

Enjoy the rest of your holiday!

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Snow-in-Texas · Dec 25, 2012

xmas365 said:
What a beautiful Christmas we had today.

I feel the Post-Christmas Blues already creeping in, especially when everyone left and again when the "A Christmas Story" marathon ended a few minutes ago.

Why does every Christmas feels like it is the best ever?
Sounds like a blog post will be coming soon.

I just love this holiday so much, the feelings it brings, the joy, the family, the bacchanalia. (Can't you tell I watched probably close to ten hours of the marathon today.)

We have another Christmas celebration to head to on Saturday with my grandparents.

Everyone stay safe who is in the path of the blizzard and the tornado warnings down south.

Good night and Merry Christmas.

I feel the same way as far as having the after Christmas blues. I have to go back to work tomorrow after being off since last Wednesday. I hate for it to end. Not because of going to work, I was just so enjoying my time with my wife and doing our Christmas stuff, and of course having all the family over for Christmas eve. I try to look at it this way, if I couldn't wait for it to end, that would mean I didn't have a good time, instead I don't want it to end because I was having a great time.

caninemom3 · Dec 25, 2012

xmas365 said:
What a beautiful Christmas we had today.

I feel the Post-Christmas Blues already creeping in, especially when everyone left and again when the "A Christmas Story" marathon ended a few minutes ago.

Why does every Christmas feels like it is the best ever?
Sounds like a blog post will be coming soon.

I just love this holiday so much, the feelings it brings, the joy, the family, the bacchanalia. (Can't you tell I watched probably close to ten hours of the marathon today.)

We have another Christmas celebration to head to on Saturday with my grandparents.

Everyone stay safe who is in the path of the blizzard and the tornado warnings down south.

Good night and Merry Christmas.

I have started my downward spiral too, Xmas. I think it gets just a little harder each year......I hope you feel better xo

jennifer91 · Dec 25, 2012

I know that it is still Christmas, but I feel the post-Christmas blues coming already. There is just something about the fact that Christmas is a whole year away that bums me out. I just think of the long winter months ahead and I dread it. It seems like the months are nothing but bad weather, long work days, and busy school days. To be honest, I don't like the New Year at all. Many people get excited to celebrate New Years Eve, but not me. I don't follow the whole, "new year, new me" sort of thing. I just take New Years as another day. Last year I vowed that this year was going to be the best and hoped that everyone in my family was going to be healthy, but then I had a rough start to the year with sickness in the family. I am always an optimistic person, but being the Christmas lover that I am, I just have no hype for anything else a few weeks after Christmas ends. Everyone in my family goes back to work, we typically get pounded with after-Christmas snow, and I have to go back to school. The winters here are never pleasant anyway!

I realize that my post makes me sound like a complete debbie-downer, so I am going to try to change my mood. My mom is off for the rest of the week and she promised to make the whole week a continuous Christmas celebration. We don't take our decorations/tree down until after the 1st of the New Year, so at least I have time to enjoy everything being out/up!

That's what I like so much about having MMC to come online to every day. I know you all feel the exact same way I do about Christmas and everyone is easy to relate to. No one else really understands why I am so sad to see Christmas end. All of the complaints I am seeing on Facebook amaze me! Things like, "At least I don't have to cook big meals any longer" to "So glad the family left, I hate holidays!" to "The worst holiday of the year is over, yay!" I just don't get it! I love everything about Christmas from doing the grocery shopping for special holiday food to baking cookies to decorating the house to simply sitting in the family room and enjoying our Christmas tree. I am sure that I will see my neighbors ripping down their lights tomorrow, as usual.

My mom told me when she was a child that Christmas really didn't end on the 25th. She said that everyone she knew really had a week-long celebration, all the way to the New Year. My mom isn't a lover of New Years either, but she said that she didn't mind it at all when the Christmas celebration continued until then. She said going into the New Year still having a little Christmas cheer always made it more fun. I vote we do that! I wouldn't mind it being Christmas all week.

Now I really rambled. It's almost 9 PM now so that leaves me only a couple of hours left of Christmas. I really enjoyed spending the day with my family, celebrating the true meaning of Christmas, eating some great food, watching my favorite movies, and of course the presents were an added bonus. I guess if it were Christmas every single day, that would take away all of the fun and excitement that we experience all year round.

Already counting down mentally 'til next Christmas in my head!

Good night, everyone. I hope you all had a wonderful day with your family/friends. Don't get too caught up with the post-Christmas blues!

shellie12 · Dec 25, 2012

Evening all

Thank god i had a lovley day , a bit streessful and hard work but still nice
Am feeling the christmas blue thing to i always do. i shed a tear
But guess we are not to bad over here we do it all over again tomorrow as the 26th is boxing day. i have no one for dinner tomorrow only my own home ones well i might have to take a dinner to someone but thats no deal
I really hope you all had a great day .. talk soon

MerryCarey · Dec 25, 2012

shellie12 said:
Evening all

Thank god i had a lovley day , a bit streessful and hard work but still nice
Am feeling the christmas blue thing to i always do. i shed a tear
But guess we are not to bad over here we do it all over again tomorrow as the 26th is boxing day. i have no one for dinner tomorrow only my own home ones well i might have to take a dinner to someone but thats no deal
I really hope you all had a great day .. talk soon

Wish we had Boxing Day here ... It's back to business as usual tomorrow. At least it will be only a three-day work week, and Monday is supposed to be a half day, unless one of our clients gets difficult.

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shellie12 · Dec 25, 2012

MerryCarey said:
Wish we had Boxing Day here ... It's back to business as usual tomorrow. At least it will be only a three-day work week, and Monday is supposed to be a half day, unless one of our clients gets difficult.

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i was just thinking that , 1 day
We at least tomorrow and christmas wood go on with things about to 1st jan. makes it a little more worth while
Of course sales start tomorrow here but a lot just have another family day or go to another house for dinner. i somehow feel bad for you guys

Christmasstar · Dec 25, 2012

I am basking in the warmth of wonderful memories of family, friends, gifts, great food and everything else that goes with the day!
I love everything about Christmas, the before , the day and the after.
Keeping this in my mind all the time brings a smile to my face and joy to my heart.

That is the wonderful thing about this site, it keeps the magic of Christmas alive all year long.

So refuse to be blue, instead stay red & green!!

Christmasstar · Dec 25, 2012

Shellie, it is Boxing day here tomorrow too, lots of great sales. I will head out to the mall for awhile and see if there is anything good on sale. LittleCS says the dollar store where she works will have all the Christmas stuff on half price so I will go and look there.
I still have 2 days off, work one day and then the weekend off. I have company coming on Saturday for another Christmas lunch. I still have to decide what to serve.

Seawaters · Dec 25, 2012

Another special Christmas post in the making, Jennifer!!!

jennifer91 said:
I know that it is still Christmas, but I feel the post-Christmas blues coming already. There is just something about the fact that Christmas is a whole year away that bums me out. I just think of the long winter months ahead and I dread it. It seems like the months are nothing but bad weather, long work days, and busy school days. To be honest, I don't like the New Year at all. Many people get excited to celebrate New Years Eve, but not me. I don't follow the whole, "new year, new me" sort of thing. I just take New Years as another day. Last year I vowed that this year was going to be the best and hoped that everyone in my family was going to be healthy, but then I had a rough start to the year with sickness in the family. I am always an optimistic person, but being the Christmas lover that I am, I just have no hype for anything else a few weeks after Christmas ends. Everyone in my family goes back to work, we typically get pounded with after-Christmas snow, and I have to go back to school. The winters here are never pleasant anyway!

I realize that my post makes me sound like a complete debbie-downer, so I am going to try to change my mood. My mom is off for the rest of the week and she promised to make the whole week a continuous Christmas celebration. We don't take our decorations/tree down until after the 1st of the New Year, so at least I have time to enjoy everything being out/up!

That's what I like so much about having MMC to come online to every day. I know you all feel the exact same way I do about Christmas and everyone is easy to relate to. No one else really understands why I am so sad to see Christmas end. All of the complaints I am seeing on Facebook amaze me! Things like, "At least I don't have to cook big meals any longer" to "So glad the family left, I hate holidays!" to "The worst holiday of the year is over, yay!" I just don't get it! I love everything about Christmas from doing the grocery shopping for special holiday food to baking cookies to decorating the house to simply sitting in the family room and enjoying our Christmas tree. I am sure that I will see my neighbors ripping down their lights tomorrow, as usual.

My mom told me when she was a child that Christmas really didn't end on the 25th. She said that everyone she knew really had a week-long celebration, all the way to the New Year. My mom isn't a lover of New Years either, but she said that she didn't mind it at all when the Christmas celebration continued until then. She said going into the New Year still having a little Christmas cheer always made it more fun. I vote we do that! I wouldn't mind it being Christmas all week.

Now I really rambled. It's almost 9 PM now so that leaves me only a couple of hours left of Christmas. I really enjoyed spending the day with my family, celebrating the true meaning of Christmas, eating some great food, watching my favorite movies, and of course the presents were an added bonus. I guess if it were Christmas every single day, that would take away all of the fun and excitement that we experience all year round.

Already counting down mentally 'til next Christmas in my head!

Good night, everyone. I hope you all had a wonderful day with your family/friends. Don't get too caught up with the post-Christmas blues!

CoJack27 · Dec 25, 2012

Countdown to Christmas on the top of this page says 364 days.

But it's only 7 more months until Christmas in July.

Seawaters · Dec 25, 2012

Time to sign off for the evening, Christmas friends. We still have Christmas tunes on the radio for several more hours. Thinking of all of you. And a huge thank you to Jeff for making all this possible.

Christmasstar · Dec 25, 2012

CoJack27 said:
Countdown to Christmas on the top of this page says 364 days. But it's only 7 more months until Christmas in July.

I love the way you think!!!
:???:

Seawaters · Dec 25, 2012

Great reminder, CoJack!!!

CoJack27 said:
Countdown to Christmas on the top of this page says 364 days. But it's only 7 more months until Christmas in July.

Christmasstar · Dec 25, 2012

Seawaters said:
Time to sign off for the evening, Christmas friends. We still have Christmas tunes on the radio for several more hours. Thinking of all of you. And a huge thank you to Jeff for making all this possible.

good night!

sprinkleshouse · Dec 25, 2012

CoJack27 said:
Countdown to Christmas on the top of this page says 364 days. But it's only 7 more months until Christmas in July.

I know right?!? Believe it or not that thinking of that really helps me. I always have a bad case of the after-Christmas blues and coming here always helps me feel tons better! I love this place and each and every one of you all!! On to the 2013 countdown (not to mention the after Christmas sales this week!)

Blessings everyone!! :tree: