NoJoMo Day 25 *Edit*

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I almost forgot.

Today Alex is 6 months old.  Oh my goodness, how the time has flied!  Sigh!

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My post for the Christmas tree never went through, I forgot to put my zip code on it.  I’m not going to worry about it.  Everyone is fine with it.  Maybe we can get a free tree on Christmas Eve.  🙂  Like I said, it’s not about the tree, it’s about the spirit of the season.  We’ll do other things.  Hopefully we can take some pictures with Satna that DON’T cost money, or don’t require a picture be bought.  Sigh.  That may take some work…all the Mall Santas now require that if you’re going to take pictures with your own camera, you have to buy a picture from them.  Kinda sad, if you ask me… though I GUESS I understand the motivation (money).  Corporate greed seemingly knows no boundaries.  Last year, we went to see Santa on the 23rd, I think, and we were the last to get to be with Santa, because we got there so late.  It was really memorable, the security guard kept chatting us up, and gave us coupons to ride the merry go round in the Mall.  We got bendable little reindeer instead of candy canes from Santa.  It was very nice.  Afterwards, we went and had "dinner" more like a late night snack, at Denny’s. 

Yea, that was totally fun. 

I will never have had a Christmas like this.  It is going to be a little weird.  I have absolutely promised myself that it’ll be a good Christmas despite and that I will find ways to make it a whole holiday season, and not just about Christmas itself.  We don’t do the whole religious aspect with the Baby Jesus and all of that…when you think about it, this is pretty much a Pagan holiday anyway, basically taken by the Romans to promote Christianity.  I think the Jehovah’s Witnesses probably have it correct, not celebrating it, because it’s not truly a Christian holiday anyway.  However, we simply don’t "do" Christianity anyway.  Becca doesn’t even believe God exists… though I suspect that’s going to leave her without an anchor at times… I don’t know if God exists, but I have certainly felt SOME presence at times to believe God DOES exist, though He or She, I am not sure.  I have even had miracles of my own to convince me.  And not a Christmas miracle, an honest to goodness "this shouldn’t have happened" type, but it DID happen.  Just when my life was on the line, too.

Guess I’ll post this one for today… running out of time, and trying to get the house cleaned for Thanksgiving.