I feel like Scrooge this holiday season. Everything is bah, humbug. Put up the decorations on the stairs, ah, too much work. Make cookies, why? I can’t eat them. Go Christmas shopping? Why when I’ve seen so MUCH poverty a few months ago and see how much we have.
As I lay in bed last night (I tend to do that once I’m up at 3 am for a little person’s middle of the night snack), I realized that I need to change my attitude and FAST.
Christmas is about celebrating. It’s about a major event in our history that I find very significant to my faith. The birth of Christ. I’ve allowed everything around me to affect me so much that I have failed to just sit in the fact that a baby was born.
I look at Desta these days. Her smiles are getting bigger and more often. She screams in delight, constantly. She likes to move A LOT, often and everywhere. She is a true JOY to our family.
So this Mama Scrooge is going to get off her high horse and start making Christmas about celebration. We have a snow day today. Kids will be home from school (I have a little boy throwing up so he’ll have to be quarantined but…) We’re getting out the Christmas books, making some Christmas crafts and celebrating the baby born, our Christ, our Savior and our Lord!
I was born in Jos, Nigeria many years ago. I spent the next nineteen years living in Liberia, Kenya and Ethiopia.
Don’t forget that probably part of the reason you’re not feeling like doing lots is because you are tired. That affects so much! Don’t be afraid to give yourself a break this year if you’re not up to all the things you feel you should be doing!