Christmas Break

My problem with the Jehovah’s Witness Program is that there are no holidays. I mean some days are just crap. They are. Try as you might to catch a carpe dieum, your net is empty. So it’s nice to set aside a few days in a year, when you can say, hey, I’m going to be happy this day. Despite all other days, on this day, I’m going to be happy.

I love Christmas, and birthdays, and Halloween, and Thanksgiving. Christmas is just like in WHO-ville, where no one can take it away. Even when your kid breaks his arm first thing in the morning on his brand new Santa present, you go to the ER for a little while (doesn’t take long that early in the morning), then you come home to twenty-plus friends and relatives, and relatives and friends swarming around your house. Despite that you’ve called everyone and told them not to come yet, they’ve come anyway! They’ve arrived while you were at the ER and set out food and games and laughter…well, that was my Christmas.

No matter what happens, Christmas is coming and I can count on it. Thanks to everybody who came to my house on December 25th and made it a very merry day indeed.