Like me, I am sure that you have all heard of the Christmas time blues thing and that Christmas is a hard time of year for alot of people, however, it has never happened to me or rather should i say my immediate family. My mother always has trouble this time of year...but I always just wrote that off as my mother and her being old and all (sorry mom). But this year it has my family and I by the proverbial toes.
So it starts...well maybe that's the thing you don't know how these things start, they are just on you! At anyrate my wife and i start getting frustrated with the kids (you see we have 10 or more kids on any give day) and then the kids with us...or was it the other way around? Then one of my daughters who is so very loving and caring starts in with i need to do something for myself or i am going to explode...my wife continues the effort with i need to do these things for myself as well...i too feel i need to do somethings for myself...now i find myself at a cafe doing things by myself and for myself...and it feels pretty dam good...so much so that i am reading the internet and writing a blog!
So, I'm sitting here and i read this article about what to do after Christmas, you know looking for ideas and it turns out that it is all about beating the Christmas blues by doing things for yourself by yourself! That's it that's what the article said... Beat the Christmas blues by doing it for yourself by yourself! I thought to myself...hell that's it that's the ticket...I'm on the right track...more expresso, muffins and internet!
But...then I read this other article about this woman who, on Christmas day morning lost her three young children and both her parents to a house fire in her own home...she is a very wealthy advertising executive...NOW HERE IS A PERSON WHO CAN DO ALL THE THINGS SHE WANTS BY HERSELF FOR HERSELF TO HELP HERSELF FEEL BETTER AND TO BEAT THE AFTER CHRISTMAS BLUES...I wonder how that will work out for her?!?!
I sure hope that after Christmas doesn't become the me, me me, me season....We have a nuff of that for the rest of the year!
I think i'll go visit my friend in hospice...we always have a good time and we both feel better after our visit! Then I'll go home, distribute hugs and see what else i can do for my family...Hell, maybe I'll even call my mother and wish her merry Christmas, again!
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