I don’t have a good track record with the Holidays. Looking back across my years of accumulated posts here, it seems this time of year brings a lot of unintended stress and shit I’d rather not deal with. And that’s fine to a certain degree…I’m a big boy. I don’t need to have a sparkly Christmas in order to feel ok about things. But now with Kingston getting old enough to start developing an interest in the Season (he’s singing Xmas songs and learning about Santa), it’s made me feel like I have to help foster the joy of these seasonal Holidays otherwise he’ll become nonchalant about it all…like…my wife. Hey, I don’t blame her, she was raised outside of the country where xmas isn’t a big deal at all.<\/p>\n
But here we are near the middle of December and the days are counting down as I run out of time getting our Christmas decorations up this year. My wife is still cleaning up our newly renovated condo up like her life depended on it, so I can’t bring up our Holiday stuff without it causing World War 3. Grandma is spending some time off-island this month so she won’t be getting a Xmas tree either.<\/p>\n
So at this point…Kingston doesn’t really have any visual support for the season. It’s bothering me.<\/p>\n
Whatever. At some point if we can’t get our place in shape in time for me to do any decorating, I guess I’ll go shave some ice out of our fridge and throw it over Kingston’s head \u00a0“Look it’s snowing!!!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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