Merry Christmas!!
Merry Christmas everyone!!!!! (Ok, it's actually only Christmas eve, but whatev)
And no, I'm not going to be PC and say Happy Holidays because I don't know ANYONE who celebrates Kwanza and Hanukah ended like... idk.... sometime early this week? And ok, I CELEBRATED Hanukah, I can totally say Merry Fucking Christmas if I want.
God damnit.
Anyway, I decided to write this update because it's Christmas, which is my favorite of all holidays (because it's the only holiday I actually like) and I think it's important to remember what Christmas is really about.
I think that Christmas is not about toys, or the lights, or even religion. I feel that Christmas is about family and being thankful for what you have.
This Christmas if very special to me because it will only be mine and my sisters second Christmas out of our mother's house, and the first one where Ash isn't at college. It's the time where our family is getting over the shock of not having to do what we've done for the past 18 years and we now have the time and leeway to make our own traditions.
I think it's a little weird... I mean... I'm the girl who grew up celebrating about 7 Christmases and one Hanukah a year, and now I'm down to one.
It's absolutely fucking amazing.
I mean... sure 7 Christmases= more presents but it also means having to celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve with Mom and my step dad, then wake up early on Christmas morning to open our stocking and wait for Step-dad's parents to come over (who always stayed too long, and due to my step-grandma's mental problems she often forgot to make things equal, see the Christmas where Ash got 10 gifts and I got none). Then my Dad would have to drive an hour from his home, to pick us up at mom's and drive an hour back to his house to open presents there. My poor step-brother would not be able to open any presents till about 1:30. It was hectic, and involved a lot of screaming and not a lot of playing with presents.
Especially since Christmas with mom involved having to get rid of one of our possessions for each present to be able to keep it.
Anyway, back to family.
I am incredibly blessed with family. Although I grew up with a bigger family then I have now, and I do not talk to the majority of my biological family today, after my mother kicked me out of my house I was blessed beyond all measure to have two wonderful mothers- my step mom and my foster mom. Although neither are related by blood, they love me as though they gave birth to me. I am also extremely blessed to have my bio sister home with me. She is amazing, smart, and spoils me silly and I love her dearly. Along with the unbio family I have my foster sister (who has a livejournal... probably should help her with that...) who is just like me. She is more than my best friend in the world, and I own her family a debt of gratitude I will never be able to pay.
So... that's what I think of Christmas, and that's what I'm thankful for.
(On the other hand I am NOT thankful for the cold and think it's BS that ALL of my families decided to settle in this freaking lake effect snow region, but whatev)
Anywho, Merry Christmas!!