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I love the holidays, just not the large social gatherings.
I get “sad”, almost “depressed” right after Christmas. many reasons, in big part all the build-up and anticipation, then boom, it’s all over.
I prefer the small things like this weekend, my son and his wife came to our place, we spent some time together, had our “Christmas” here, and it was fun, simple, not so loud.
Since my brother insisted that the only day he had free for our side of the family get together was Friday, he ended up convincing my son it should be at his place. An advantage for us since my son lives only 6 miles away – no long drive. We got there early, just my D-I-L, my wife, my parents, then my son got home, and my brothers and their families arrived. IT was fine until they arrived – LOUD, kids out of control, kids trying to talk over each other, total madness and noise and the fun disappeared. My brothers are almost afraid to disciplin their kids, never really have, so they are now teenagers with bad attitudes, talking back to their parents, no respect, almot abusive to the parents. My son after a couple hours of this mumbled just enough so my wife and I could hear it “I really wish they were ready to go home”.
It’s not the holidays, it’s the social gatherings, loud noises, disorder, frenzied shopping, and the madness promoted by the media and advertisers. Black Friday should be outlawed.
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