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Old 12-16-2008, 09:29 AM
 
Location: Sunshine N'Blue Skies
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Christmas for me brings memories of those who have passed on. I have lots of ornaments and decorations that I've been given from people who are no longer with me and I treasure them and remember them when I decorate my home. As Summering refers to, you honor those who have passed on by remembering them and enjoying the holiday as they would have.

Christmas is also hope for the future, the coming year is a gift, we may not have all of the days, but the days that we get we should live to the fullest.

There was a quote I read somewhere that I thought was cute, "Christmas is the love that is around you when you stop opening presents and listen"
Oh I love that............It is " The love that is around you when you stop opening presents and listen...." That really works too. It is that Joy!
I have a few trains on my tree that were my dads. Train ornaments...
I have a few things that came from Mr Summerings Mom, that remind me how much I loved her too. On my tree is a tiny little sweater that my Mom knit...
( Ok Summering has to pause here.......) ....................
Its those reasons that make the holiday special. Its the very little things that count.........the littlest things...
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Old 12-16-2008, 09:33 AM
 
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I'm going to try to get my lionel train set up and running but I need some accesories....
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Old 12-16-2008, 10:14 AM
 
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This is all I can offer this Season...our lone poinsettia!! Since we won't be here, we didn't decorate....

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Old 12-16-2008, 10:26 AM
 
Location: Sunshine N'Blue Skies
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What is Festivus? It's for the rest of us!
I saw that Coartist celebrates Festivus.( on his status)........Ok, I didn't know a thing about it........So this is what came up! A New holiday, started by a father of someone from the Seinfeld show?( 1966) It sounds interesting..... I'm still ready to learn about it. Does it take the place of a traditional Christmas Day?
Someone can tell me more.....
This fruitcake passed down from year to year and never eaten........Ahhhh.....doesn't it get a bit moldy?
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Old 12-16-2008, 10:41 AM
 
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What is Festivus? It's for the rest of us!
I saw that Coartist celebrates Festivus.( on his status)........Ok, I didn't know a thing about it........So this is what came up! A New holiday, started by a father of someone from the Seinfeld show?( 1966) It sounds interesting..... I'm still ready to learn about it. Does it take the place of a traditional Christmas Day?
Someone can tell me more.....
This fruitcake passed down from year to year and never eaten........Ahhhh.....doesn't it get a bit moldy?
here it is....my heritage.....festivus....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQFLqMyo0fo
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Old 12-16-2008, 11:43 AM
 
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Ahhhhh.......Where is your Joy? I find spending on people I love heartful...
I bet deep down inside you do too.....
It's a joy when people receive gifts with surprise and delight.

It's an expensive pain in the arse when you get a list from family of "what the cousins are getting for Christmas - which would you like to buy for them?" Nah, that greedy 'gimme' 'gimme' is so not my scene. Christmas cannot be bought and sold, despite what retailers try to lead us to believe.
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Old 12-16-2008, 12:09 PM
 
Location: Pocono Mts.
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I felt a lot of Christmas Spirit last night and today...we got our tree and decorated the house.

I just let my kids decorate last night as I made cookies..when they finished, they called me to come look..and it looked real pretty, but I quickly noticed that they missed all the best ornaments & told them to get the box back out. They couldn't understand, because they chose the best balls and bells of the bunch..but as I started taking out certain ornaments and explaining the story behind them, they understood. That's when the Spirit really hit me...there was the ones with toothless grins of my smiling children surrounded by noodle shapes that were made in grade school...the special ginormous construction paper and fabric christmas ball with red yarn hanger, and how can I not hang the little bag of lentils we made when we did Italy for Christmas around the World at Eldred?

The memories that this season brings me is what Christmas is to me!

have some cookies..
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Old 12-16-2008, 12:30 PM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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DavidWebb, I am deeply touched by what you wrote to us, and I wish you and yours many Merrier Christmases in the years to come. Time heals all wounds. A decade from now December won't always be a time when you have to bow your head and reflect upon how painful the Holidays used to be. Just ask yourself what your brothers would want for you if they were up in heaven looking down at you and your family from above. Do you think they'd want you just moping around, crying, and saying "Tis the Season to Be Grievin'" or do you think they'd say "Cheer up buckaroo and enjoy your life?!" I wish you and yours the very best.

I would also, as an aside, like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your vindicating comments about AIDS. I can still recall how hurtful it was when someone told me "I hope you die of AIDS" during a fight back in high school. A terminal illness is nothing to wish upon anyone. Take it from someone who used to be active with the American Cancer Society that what those poor people endure is NO picnic! Everyone just assumes that all we gay guys do is fornicate like jackrabbits and spread HIV around as if it were going out of style, and it's always very irksome to hear such comments hurled at us. This is by no means an attempt to direct attention away from the two brothers you lost to AIDS, but it was very appreciated by me that you'd take the effort to educate people about the subject area when so many people in NEPA are noticeably homophobic.
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Old 12-16-2008, 12:35 PM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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This Christmas will be a difficult one for my family as well. My maternal grandmother has been dying a very slow and agonizing death for about the past year now, and my mother has been driving herself to tears at times trying to care for her. She has a feeding tube in her, and her memory is so bad that she doesn't even remember the visitors she just had several hours prior. Meanwhile my great uncle in Shreveport, LA is recovering after receiving a critical liver transplant. We're hoping he makes a full recovery as well. It's been a sad Christmas for me because the very few job interviews I'd had thus far have proven fruitless. Granted I have stable employment now with Lowe's, but of course it's not anywhere near being in the accounting field to be selling tractors to people.

2008 will go down as being a terrible year for many, many people. The only "gift" I'm looking forward to is ousting President Bush in a few weeks.
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Old 12-16-2008, 01:03 PM
 
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I can still recall how hurtful it was when someone told me "I hope you die of AIDS" during a fight back in high school. A terminal illness is nothing to wish upon anyone.
OMG! WTF? Someone would actually say that to you? As mean as LI'ers tend to be I guess we're not that homophobic. Or at least I haven't experienced it firsthand. Here people will look down on you if you're wearing last month's style. But I don't think they'd wish you a terminal disease. That's just awful.
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