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DEL.ICIO.USNo Christmas displays in September!
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The madness must stop. It has gotten completely out of control and I can’t take it anymore.
Welcome to my yearly “Bah Humbug Rant”.
I know what you’re thinking because I have heard this from my friends before…
“Woody, isn’t it a little early for this?”
You have to understand that I am not the biggest fan of the holidays as it is, so you can probably imagine my reaction when I wandered into Garden Ridge and Old Time Pottery over the Labor Day weekend.
I saw something that looked like the Great Pumpkin or Santa and all his elves had thrown up all over the stores.
There were pumpkins, witches, Christmas trees (what I like to call bah humbug trees), ornaments and snowmen. All sorts of orange, black, red and green washed over the stores like a holiday tidal wave had hit them.
C’mon, it is early September people! We haven’t even made it past the end of summer much less Halloween and Thanksgiving!
As a kid, I enjoyed the holidays until one day something just clicked inside me and I realized just how selfish and over commercialized the holidays had become.
They’ve lost their meaning to me and I couldn’t care less about them. For this reason, I felt it necessary to develop the following rules for the holidays.
Woody’s Rules for the Holidays:
Rule No. 5: Parents, please don’t lie to your kids. Forget about stories of Santa, the Easter Bunny and all because all your really doing is just setting them up for a big let-down later.
Rule No. 4: Don’t expect anything in return for any gift you give to someone and certainly don’t complain about a gift given to you. Giving and doing something nice for someone is supposed to be the point of the holiday isn’t it? I think that message has gotten lost. Give to that person’s charity of choice instead.
Rule No. 3: Do not buy or sell holiday merchandise until 30 days before the holiday and certainly not before another holiday is finished. For instance, no bah humbug till after gobble gobble.
Rule No. 2: Please save yourselves the embarrassment of tacky or lackluster decorating. I have seen some really nasty jobs of holiday lighting and displays. Take the time and money and do it right or preferably not at all.
Rule No. 1: Remove ll holiday decorations and lighting by Dec 31. This rule, if broken, unnerves me more than any other and is worthy of a long string of expletives and mocking. If you can’t get all those tacky decorations down by that time, they probably didn’t need to go up in the first place. There is a house in the Norcross area that still hasn’t taken down those ugly ‘icicle lights’ from their house from like two years ago!
Now if you will excuse me, I need to go make a huge “Bah Humbug” sign with my mentor Scrooge on it for my front yard in protest.
Do you agree that all this over commercialism of the holidays has gotten out of hand? What rule would you add to the list?
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By Dragonmaster
September 11, 2006 07:10 AM | Link to this
The current rule for putting out the “bah humbug” merchandise at a store is after July 4th has passed, the first time the thermostadt outside has a high temperature less than 90 degress. It is ridiculous.
The spooky holiday decorations come out when the first hotdog bun and cold adult bevarge display is taken down prior to labor day.
By OldSchool
September 11, 2006 08:01 AM | Link to this
I didn’t lie to my kids. We explained that Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny represent the SPIRIT of giving (see your own rule #4). We also encouraged their imaginations and thus saw no harm in the seasonal characters. Our girls are definitely living in reality but have a whimsical sense of humor and joy of living.
Altruism is a quality sadly lacking these days. If an imaginary character can help instill a joy of giving for giving’s sake, what is so wrong about that? When asked about the existance of Santa, we explained that as long as there is love and joy and unselfish giving, there is Santa.
We also used the early displays to teach lessons in not being greedy or in a hurry. Just because holiday decor and glitz is all around, we don’t have to be drawn into it.
You would have hated our Christmas trees and the way the decorations evolved over the years. When the kids were young, they constantly rearranged the ornaments they could reach into one mass in one area at the bottom. The top third of the tree held family treasured ornaments and the middle was pretty much bare…until they grew. The rest of our “decor” depended on the toys the kids wanted to decorate with and that too changed daily. Now they are grown, our tree is lovely with their childhood creations and our light-filled memories.
I’ll pretty much agree with you on this one. It is a tradition in our family to be undecorated before Jan. 1 as it is bad luck to keep a tree up into the new year. That’s where our next year’s yule log comes from…unless we opt for an artificial tree.
By fk
September 11, 2006 08:53 AM | Link to this
Since when does the Christmas season end by Jan. 1? Has anyone ever heard of the Twelve Days of Christmas? The Christmas seasons ends January 6th, the Epiphany, and it begins with Advent. It’s the dept. stores, etc. that changed when the season begins and ends, and now you want everyone to follow their lead, yet you complain about them. Really, do you know someone who is struggling in life after finding out the truth about Santa and the Easter Bunny? Geez. Bah humbug is an understatement.
By John
September 11, 2006 09:52 AM | Link to this
Christmas displays should go up on the Friday after Thanksgiving and not one day earlier. Stores should close on Christmas. If not for Christ’s birth, there would be no Christmas and staying open on Sunday dishonors the very day the stores are celebrating.
By the same token, I saw HALLOWEEN stuff on shelves in August. Stores should limit displays of Halloween, Valentines Day, etc. to the two weeks before those days.
By linny
September 11, 2006 10:31 AM | Link to this
Man, i agree soooooo completely with the spirit of your article today! I was thinking…with all the greed and glitz, someone could get really rich if they could invent a store-side revolving display that could be displayed, say (maybe in a corner) with the four major “display holiday (not holy day)” setups … behind the scenes would be, say, valentine, easter and autumn (halloween and t’day combined?) while christmas is displayed… they’d simply have to push a button to turn the dang thing…. and for all of us who HATE the whole thing, well, we could just AVOID that corner of the store!!!
linny is rolling her eyes heavenward
seriously, you have hit on one my biggest nerves with this one!!! the ONLY excuse for a christmas display before thanksgiving is that store down on I-75 that IS a “christmas” store all year round!!!!
peace!
~¿@
By woodys mom
September 11, 2006 10:57 AM | Link to this
oooooooohhhhhhhhh boy…. i didnt raise my son this way.. maybe thats why he is the way he is.. i love christmas.. more i love the spirit of christmas. i brings out the best in most of us. to me its not getting the gifts but giving them. i have tried to suprise everyone that i give a gift to.. but… woody was always a challenge. he would figure it out alot of the time what we gave him for christmas be it sneaking into the package or just by the size of it. yea wood i knew you would sneak. so i would get creative on how i would package it. i finally went to putting so much tape on the package that it would be hard for him to unwrap and rewrap the gifts. we used to love to decorate the tree and house together. yes he used to love to do this with me.. i think it all changed when he moved out. i am a decorating fool.. i have so much now that i cant put it all out every year. but i am with woody on a few things.. one is they bring out the merchandise way to early.. lets get those early bucks! i also am with him on when to take them down..i usually start taking decorations down on new years day.. my goal every holiday is to get him out of the bah hum bug attitude.. sometimes i succeed sometimes i dont.. but the one thing i can say about woody.. he has the love and caring attitude that comes with chritmas year around..
By Kevin
September 11, 2006 11:09 AM | Link to this
Woody, you are right on. No Christmas decorations or displays in stores until after Thanksgiving.
In fact, I think an economic boycott should occur for those stores who feel compelled to bring out Christmas items before Thanksgiving.
By Eric
September 11, 2006 12:46 PM | Link to this
We’d all be better off putting all the hokey holidays out to pasture for good anyway… ESPECIALLy the Religious ones the simply push ancient mythologies on to our socieites (Ramadan, Christmans, Easter, Hanukah, et)
And speaking of myths if we’re going to celebrate Thanksgiving and Columbus today, can we at least do it accurately, with portrayals of disease, slaughter, rape and pillage that they really were about?
By Traay
September 11, 2006 12:52 PM | Link to this
I went shopping this weekend in a (uh-oh, take a guess) Wal-Mart, and they already are going all out on their Christmas displays, 2 aisles of Christman, 2 of Halloween, nothing with Thanksgiving (no retailer has yet to figure out how to steal the sanctity of that holiday, except for decorated napkins and placemats and such). I feel they are trying to push this on us in a deparate attempt to make extra money. I try not to spend money on decorations and save it for gifts, but with them pushing on us so early, it’s hard to walk right past the aisles!! Christmas used to be fun, unitl decorating got more important, from now on, it’s just simple lights outside, a decorated tree inside, and my money is going to the items that will bring happiness to others (and by ‘others’ I DON’T mean lining the business owners’ pockets!)
By WFike
September 11, 2006 12:52 PM | Link to this
You need to keep in mind that the stores are runing their displays for people that buy their stuff an not you anti-Christmas people that are not going to buy the suff anyway so they don’t care what you think!
By Jeff
September 11, 2006 12:56 PM | Link to this
Wow, I’m really glad I’m not Eric.
By linny
September 11, 2006 01:15 PM | Link to this
lol, Jeff, i was thinking the same thing!
but i could do without a little bit of all the hype and greed…
shaking head
By Rebecca Bowie
September 11, 2006 01:16 PM | Link to this
Thank you for finally coming out and saying it! Why do Americans lie to their children and then expect honesty in return? The Bible says that we should worship God “in spirit and in truth”. How can that be when we encourage our children to believe in fictional characters as if they were real? My children know the history, origin, and reason for every holiday. Most adults don’t even take the time to learn those things, yet celebrate anything “blindly” just because they were brought up that way. It is time to take a stand and learn the truth about holidays and teach it to our children.
By Tray
September 11, 2006 01:17 PM | Link to this
well, ERIC in that case, how do we celebrate today?? I know, instead of celebrating the heoreos who came through on 9/11, lets just blow up some building with people in them!! Oh, wait, that’s not something good to celebrate. Society tends to find the bad points about things and bring them to light (watch any news on TV letely, it’s 90% bad stuff being brought to our attention). So holidays are celebrations of the good things. Think of it this way, even though rape/slaughter/pillaging did take place when we came to America, because of that, you have the right to say the insanely crazy remarks you just did. If you were Arabic living in Saudi Arabia or somewhere over there, you would have been killed for what you just said. Celebrating holidays this early is annoying, but at least those holidays are based on the good things in America’s history, and the world’s history, and we, because of the great country we live in, can celebrate these things!!
By Miranda
September 11, 2006 01:21 PM | Link to this
I find it selfish of you that now that you’re an adult & have enjoyed the holidays as a child, you want parents to steal that joy from their children now. I agree the holiday is over commercialized, but it is up to each individual family to make sure their children know the real reason for the season.
By toni
September 11, 2006 01:26 PM | Link to this
Wow, I am not the biggest fan of the holidays because of what stores do to it, but enjoy the decorations my dad puts out and leaves up until Jan 12. That is when the display at Graceland comes down. Maybe you Woody got a little too much coal in his stocking every year or not enough…who knows. But let the kids have fun with the gifts and the adults remember the real meaning of it all.
By mariann
September 11, 2006 01:39 PM | Link to this
I so enjoy the holidays .. the music, decorations, seeing folks smile a little more than usual, the positive spirit the holiday & many people evoke … love my Xmas tree too.
To those who blame religion for the over commercialism … most Christians know the TRUE and real reason for this season - Jesus’ birth - & are usually not the ones overindulging in the commercial aspects of the holiday.
That being said, we do put up lights & a tree & usually take everything down no later than the 1st Saturday of the new year, & turn off the lights Jan 2.
Simple solution for those who don’t like the holiday displays at stores - keep it moving! Ignore the displays & go get whatever you went in there to get. As another said, they are not there for you anyway. If the stores weren’t making $$ this early, they wouldn’t have the displays out already.
By cfaye
September 11, 2006 01:53 PM | Link to this
The benefit of living in a free country. Those of us who appreciate the joyous things in life—get to! Those who would prefer not—are not forced to! I choose to teach my son about everything from the tooth fairy and Santa Clause to Jesus Christ and God. I also decorate my house starting in November for Christmas because I love the holiday and its whole meaning. That is MY choice. If I choose to go Holiday shopping in August or September then I should be allowed to. If you dont approve of the holiday then it is your choice to stay home or by pass those aisles in the store. Once again, the benefits of a free country. I can only pray that you will one day find joy in your life to let the small stuff go and realize that life really is too short to worry about something as petty as this. May the Lord Bless you
By Eric
September 11, 2006 01:54 PM | Link to this
By Tray
September 11, 2006 01:17 PM | Link to this
well, ERIC in that case, how do we celebrate today??
“Celebrate” 9/11?
9/11 should be a national day of mourning and a day to remember real events that had an impact on real people.
But think about this, to Indian and Native people of the Americas, Columbus Day or Thanksgiving IS a 9/11 for them.
By linny
September 11, 2006 01:55 PM | Link to this
you might look at it this way…just as religious ceremonies and rites are often “borrowed” from the pagans [speaking of the Christian traditions, now, because i am most familiar with those], perhaps it’s a little bit if turn-about, as the modern pagans “borrow” the Christian rites and traditions to celebrate their own “god” [i.e., money? power? bling?]
just a thought that occurred… not necessarily one i subscribe to grin
By TMS
September 11, 2006 02:04 PM | Link to this
I agree that the stores start WAY too early, however I do disagree with you on other points. First, Christmas decor should be as tacky as possible. Really, there is only tacky decor, it just varies by degree, so why not go with it. Secondly, Christmas decor isn’t supposed to come down until Jan 6, Epiphany. While as a secular holiday, Christmas is one day, religiously speaking, Christmas is several days (you know, the twelve days of Christmas!). Epiphany is the final day of Christmas, therefore decorations should not be taken down until then.
By Tray
September 11, 2006 02:10 PM | Link to this
I will concede to you that, 9/11 isn’t a ‘holiday’ it’s more or less a remembrance, but keep in mind, People as a whole need something to believe in, and in this country, they can practice religion and their corresponding holidays freely, so if you don’t want to respect that, you can file a complaint at the big white house on Pennsylvania Avenue, I’m sure they’ll listen. Anyways, back to topic, I think the retilers started first with putting out seasonal items early, and the shoppers responded. I’ve never known anyone to say “I wish they put Christmas stuff out in August!” The retailers made the first move, and it’s up to the people who want to rebel to stop buying the items so early!
By linny
September 11, 2006 02:21 PM | Link to this
In all seriousness, i think the early-early-super-early display for particular holidays, ANY holidays, being halloween or christmas or easter or valentines or what-have-you, are tacky, cheap, and usually tawdry displays of the overblown competitiveness of today’s retail world… but on a practical level, what bugs the heck outa me is the fact that the holiday displays usually displace something else, and it can be darned inconvenient to find a human being who actually KNOWS where to find something on a normal day in the store, much LESS where to find something temporarily moved because of some such temporary display!!!
As an example, and not even a holiday… went into the local (Athens) WalMart for something quick, and while hubby was looking at something else, i decided to see if i could pick up a book for the weekend… lo! and behold! the ENTIRE books and magazine section had been relocated, temporarily, to the BACK of the store, because a certain slobbery creature which represents a certain “oldest state university” was about to crank back up for fall semester and every tacky red-and-black thing you can THINK of had to be put in the FRONT of the store!!! As if those who wanted such items wouldn’t look for them no matter WHERE in the store they were placed!!!
and if you think this is off point because it’s not about religious holidays, think AGAIN…. UGA worship IS a religion for many!!!!!
shudder
By Harry
September 11, 2006 02:28 PM | Link to this
Between this and the prices of HOUSING the whole DAM country has lost it’s mind!
By Rich
September 11, 2006 03:27 PM | Link to this
I think someone needs a hug.
By Woody's Dad
September 11, 2006 03:59 PM | Link to this
Son, daddy agree with you about early Christmas Displays before thanksgiving. Wally World.. please scale down yor early christmas displays. Sammy Walton would be rolling in his graves. Woody, Sonny, heck but you ain’t needed to not celebrate Christmas tho.
By JD
September 11, 2006 08:39 PM | Link to this
Christmas decorations out even before Halloween…what’s the big hurry???????? The week of Thanksgiving is moooooooore than enough time for the Christmas season to start.
By katie
September 12, 2006 07:48 AM | Link to this
I am SO sick of Christmas starting in stores so early. Actually, all the commercialism has made me hate Christmas, period. It seems to me that nowadays it’s all about how much money you spend in stores and at malls. I don’t want to celebrate any more. Thank you retail bastards.
By D
September 12, 2006 10:25 AM | Link to this
TMS: Thanks for mentioning Epiphany. We too keep our tree up until then. Since that is when the wise men brought their gifts, it has been suggested by some that the gift giving day be shifted from Christmas day to January 6th, but that will never happen. The stores need to book that income before the close of the year - That’s why they try and stretch the Christmas buying season to 4 months.
By Deorah Liberatore
September 12, 2006 10:45 AM | Link to this
SAVE THE PLANET. DO NOT BUY KNICK KNACKS, STARTING WITH THIS CHRISTMAS SEASON.
By Merry Christmas
September 12, 2006 12:23 PM | Link to this
Easy Woody….Eaaazzzzy… maybe you should switch to decaf
By Rod
September 12, 2006 12:37 PM | Link to this
Woody - you need to have an editor. Your grammatical mistakes are attrocious!
By Patrick
September 12, 2006 02:24 PM | Link to this
I have to say that I agree with this article. The holidays have become too over-commercialized to the point that a lot of people ask themselves “why bother?”
I also agree that the law should state that not one single thread of holiday decoration shall go up on the shelves until exactly two weeks prior to the holiday itself. On the same token, said decorations shall not be put on the shelf until the previous holiday has passed by a period of no less than 7 to 10 days. This allows people to overcome one holiday before preparing for the next.
Some extra rules or laws:
Store displays relating to the holiday shall be tasteful and not overblatant in advertising their merchandise that they are hocking for the holiday. A simple Christmas (yes, I said the “C”-word) tree featuring ornaments you can purchase at the store will suffice. A fake fireplace with stockings hanging overneath, with each stocking containing an employee’s name adds a personal touch.
Anyone caught decorating their house for Christmas before December 15 shall be arrested immediately. The earlier you put up your decorations, the sooner people are going to get sick of them.
Office Parties. Ix-nay on the par-tay. You want to show your employees appreication? Give them something they can actually use, like a $25 gift certificate to a restaurant or grocery store of their choosing. If you find it hard to do so due to so many people shop at so many different stores or eat at different restaurants, just slip them an extra $25 to $50 in their paycheck, or give them a separate check of $25 to $50. $100 for those who have worked more than 10 years at your firm.
If you still wish to have a party on top of the gift, throw a small one in the office itself, preferably catered by some local company. Don’t rent a banquet room at the Gwinnett Civic Center or Cobb Galleria, where ten other companies will be hosting their parties, not to mention Manheim Steamroller performing “Sounds of Christmas” at the same night.
By the kad next door
September 12, 2006 02:45 PM | Link to this
I agree with some of what you said but the parts of not telling your kids about Santa and the Easter Bunny? Thats horrible, would you rahter your kids know when there younger and figure out some of the stuff that happens in our world a little bit younger than acting like a complete idiot and taking people seriously when there older? I think it is nice to have some thought my people coming to your house and leaving presents in a celebration of Jesus’s Birthday but the real reason for that holiday still remains. Even if someone made up Santa, It is still fun for younger kids to think that there is “magic” as you might call it. Personally I think that you are the real meaning of a Christmas Screwge.
By i know were u live
September 12, 2006 03:01 PM | Link to this
You are a complete scrooge. I think you should tell your kids about santa , the easter bunny, etc. it put some of the fun in the holiday. Kids do like the presents but they also like to believe in those things
By Hi
September 12, 2006 03:04 PM | Link to this
Hey bennett how are you doing today?? this guy is a real @#%#%. Dont you think?? yeah.. -peace
By Alice
September 12, 2006 03:05 PM | Link to this
I do not agree on not telling your children about the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus. I will always believe in Santa no matter how old I get. I celebrate Jesus’s birthday with respect and I don’t like to mock the facts and beliefs of others.
By ya
September 12, 2006 03:05 PM | Link to this
ya he is messedup this text will be bolded dont use my name
By Jesus in a Box
September 12, 2006 03:07 PM | Link to this
this is soo funny look at what i put my name as.. hahah these people are this text will be bolded funny -peace
By dude
September 12, 2006 03:08 PM | Link to this
we won r baseball game sat. 12- 2 hopefully we will do the same today
By The Sticky Stuff in your jeans
September 12, 2006 03:09 PM | Link to this
haha.. look now
By jah
September 12, 2006 03:13 PM | Link to this
AMEN Brother!!! i can’t stand alla that crappy crap! Miss Santa and The Easter Bunny represent the SPirit of giving is lost they represent the commerciality and are spokespersons for BS.. the Easter Bunny could maybe get over cause at least he gives something that was traditionally done yourself, until Publix anyway. But Santa gimmee a break…My children were un-nerved at the thought of anyone sliding down our chimney they felt if he could do it, so could anyone. and Alice..Jesus wasn’t born on Dec 25th Gosh i thought everybody knew THAT by now.
By Mary
September 12, 2006 06:04 PM | Link to this
Woody - stay away from Garden Ridge and other stores until the day after Thanksgiving. Take a pill.
By Fulton County Mom
September 12, 2006 08:12 PM | Link to this
I have to weigh in. I grew up with a Bah Humbug. He still does his shopping from 10-1 on Christmas Eve. He does let my mom put up a tree and creche every year. He let us kids do the Santa thing too (see poster about SPIRIT).
However, as much as I adore Christmas (12 boxes of stuff for a small home), I do not like going to Wally World or whatever and finding Santa stuff! I am 100% with you. Can we at least get to COOLER weather? (I prefer after Halloween).
Rule of thumb on the decorations for the house: Not before Thanksgiving. No later than Jan 6. Jan 6 is the day of Epiphany—when the wise men arrived to great the Christ Child—so that is the 12th day of Christmas.
By Fulton County Mom
September 12, 2006 08:15 PM | Link to this
ps. for the record my decs are usually down by New Years Day too. Superstion says if you had a rotten year do not have them up, leave the “bad luck” and don’t carry it in. If you had a good year, leave them until after New Years Day to bring the good luck into the new year with you. While I am not fond of black cats or walking under ladders, I do not usually keep the decs up no matter how my year was!
By Fulton County Mom
September 12, 2006 08:22 PM | Link to this
Woody’s Mom: I had a friend who duct taped all the boxes 100% and then wrapped them to keep his mother from opening them before her birtday or Christmas….just incase you catch him sneaking again :o)
By Woody Bass
September 12, 2006 10:40 PM | Link to this
Fulton County Mom: Who do you think I get it from? :)
By Sp Ed Teacher
September 12, 2006 10:42 PM | Link to this
I was in Target during Back to School sales and they had Christmas music playing. I left the store and did not buy—will not be doing much shopping there. Wal-Mart started putting out Christmas decorations right after Labor Day.
I remember when Christmas season started on Fri after Thanksgiving. The stores stayed open late each evening—closed on Sunday, of course.
I will put my decorations out Saturday after Thanksgiving, and take them down before going back to school in January. Nothing tacky, after all, I am celebrating the BABY’s birthday, which is what the whole holiday is about.
By Peter Hoover
September 13, 2006 01:18 AM | Link to this
It’s greed and commercialism. What would Jesus have said? There should be a law…noth Christmas until the day after Thanksgiving
By D
September 14, 2006 11:29 PM | Link to this
I’m not opposed to putting Christmas stuff out in stores the week of or maybe before Thanksgiving — that way people can start putting it up on Thanksgiving after the family meal — we light the Rich’s or Macy’s or whatever it is now tree on Thanksgiving. The most ridiculous thing was I was in JCPenney in Perimeter Mall a few years ago in August and they already had stuff out for Christmas. That was unbelivable to me.
By Santa
September 17, 2006 09:43 PM | Link to this
From Santa To whom it may value:
The spirit of Christmas for some may be religious, for others it may mean peace and good will with out connotation of religion. The one neutral spirit is the joyous master Elf no other than Santa Claus himself or I. I am saddened when I walk among the people of all ages, for missing is the spirit of the season and just as I think all maybe lost I hear from way down at my knee “Hi Santa!” I hear Christmas bells in a little angels voice. “And how are you this fine day!” I cheerfully whisper. “Santa, Santa may I shake your hand ? This little angel, all of six years old with eyes as round as saucers stands with hand out stretched . Now the spirit wells up in old Santa and the old knees creek and groan as I kneel to be on her level. The glorious smile never leaves her face as she white gloved hand.waits for Santa to reach out his I hold her tiny fingers in mine as I whisper “What is your name?” She smiles even larger if that is possible “My name is Jasmine!” “And what would you like for Christmas this Year Jasmine ? The smile disappears from her face and her lower lip begins to quiver, I feel, I may have some how offended her. Than her eyes get large again as she looks me in the face and says “Santa! I forget!!” “Don’t worry, when you remember you tell your mom and she will tell Santa, Ok?” “Ok Santa. Merry Christmas!” Again I hear Christmas bells in a little angels voice as she runs off to find her mommy in the large department store. I look around ; the spirit of Christmas has touched all the shoppers waiting in line, they smile , wish one another and old Santa me MERRY CHRISTMAS! I walk out the door singing jingle bells under my breath, realizing that I could be the catalyst to a happier world. Heavy responsibility, than I hear look, look its Santa Claus, I turn to greet a mother carrying her young believer, candy canes and Merry Christmas, they walk away beaming the spirit a live and well.
Maybe Santa and Mrs. Claus can do the spirit of Christmas…