From time-to-time we read where some holiday or other has supplanted Christmas because the most celebrated. Halloween gets mentioned, and therefore the Fourth of July is large. Thanksgiving is also referred to as the green light to shopping frenzy because it is for turkey and dressing.
Remember when the primary Wednesday in February was an unpaid holiday for several, people beginning work to follow the minute-by-minute reports from the Fax Girl or by other means? the primary day of the so-called Early Signing Period doesn’t seem to possess an equivalent excitement of the old Signing Day, albeit it's an equivalent importance.
From a Christian standpoint, most of the people likely would say Easter is more meaningful than Christmas. The celebrations, of course, are quite different. The Easter bunny hiding eggs doesn’t hold a candle to the gifts slipped down the chimney by Old St. Nick. Some might not like these aspects of the vacations, but it’s a part of the introduction for youngsters.
Sort of the way newspapers include the comics as how to urge children to start out reading the paper. That delayed for many years, but has fallen victim to the web in many, many cities and towns.
In most years once I was in Alabama’s sports information office, Christmas was the day we left for the bowl game. Spouses were included within the travel party, but not children. That meant up early within the morning, ‘Look what Santa Claus brought!’, then for us a fast trip to Birmingham to drop off our youngsters with their grandparents.
As grandparents now, Lynne and that i realize that was the simplest Christmas present our parents could have received – every week approximately to double spoil our youngsters.
Our children are grown now, and their children growing fast…too fast, sometimes we expect.
We will have an exquisite Christmas, our youngsters and their families gathering with us at Yellow Creek for exchange of gifts, food, a truce from political discussion, and (looking at the unseasonable weather forecast) a final cocktail cruise of 2019.
Our Christmas wish is that everybody could have all family together. One day, then everyone back to their busy lives.
We’ll anticipate to the New Year and football bowl games, notably Alabama led by the opposite St. Nick vs. Michigan within the Citrus Bowl in Orlando on January 1; and therefore the start of the SEC season when Bama goes to Florida on January 4. They really don’t need “things,” but they need our greatest wishes for fulfillment .
In a recent gathering with friends, I had a spur-of-the moment “warning” for them, which can be appropriate for others:
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Do not be deluded into thinking that Santa doesn't differentiate between Good Boys and Good Ol’ Boys.
That aside, our sincere best to all or any for a Merry Christmas and a cheerful New Year