Now that the kids are gone(scattered across the country), Christmas isn’t any fun(don’t start with the real reason for Christmas, I know what it is to remember)but still when there are kids in the house, Christmas seems to be more alive and real and being more enjoyable ! ! !
derdave: you are SO right. We have returned Christmas to Xmas – from a pagan holiday to a Christian holiday and back to pagan once again. Greedy little buggers.
I noticed too corresponds to CHRIST mas days to the 25th. For children days just drag then when CHRIST mas day is here after gifts open is gone. We also CHRIST mas eve go to candle light service we have two time slights usually just one so we will go early one, this I like.For us my children and now adults therefore we wait until afternoon and we draw names during Thanksgiving time, and when CHRIST mas day when food is over and we relax then we take turns opening gifts. Draws out more. Most other families gifts are opened first thing then the meal and nothing left. Except children playing games.
I wasn’t going to bring it up, but that’s why I do NOT celebrate Christmas. It is not biblical, and is not the date of Christ’s birth.
However, if you consider that Elizabeth got pregnant right after the course of Abia, and met the newly pregnant Mary six months later, you can count backwards to the conception date….. and find yourself right around December 25th. This also puts the birth at a time of year that makes perfect sense, late September.
Templo S.U.D. almost 9 years ago
Patience is a virtue, “Lizard-breath.”
=+*^%#}{][_\|~<>€£¥"'!?,. almost 9 years ago
Christmas is every where, aren’t you tired of it yet?
cygnustigris almost 9 years ago
Broke the 4th wall there on the next to last frame. Nice.
alviebird almost 9 years ago
Cool…. the dates work out for this year.
Keep on keepin' on almost 9 years ago
Well put!
NeedaChuckle Premium Member almost 9 years ago
The problem is many people don’t outgrow this phase.
Frog-on-a-Log Premium Member almost 9 years ago
Brat.
derdave969 almost 9 years ago
The call of the modern American.
IndyMan almost 9 years ago
Now that the kids are gone(scattered across the country), Christmas isn’t any fun(don’t start with the real reason for Christmas, I know what it is to remember)but still when there are kids in the house, Christmas seems to be more alive and real and being more enjoyable ! ! !
Snoopy_Fan almost 9 years ago
Shades of Veruca Salt…
Laynegg almost 9 years ago
Small children make Christmas magical. Once they are teens and/or grown, the magic is gone and Christmas becomes just another day.
wellinever almost 9 years ago
How did this strip manage to have Christmas and still be in sequence? What year was it shown originally?
whiteaj almost 9 years ago
derdave: you are SO right. We have returned Christmas to Xmas – from a pagan holiday to a Christian holiday and back to pagan once again. Greedy little buggers.
kab2rb almost 9 years ago
I noticed too corresponds to CHRIST mas days to the 25th. For children days just drag then when CHRIST mas day is here after gifts open is gone. We also CHRIST mas eve go to candle light service we have two time slights usually just one so we will go early one, this I like.For us my children and now adults therefore we wait until afternoon and we draw names during Thanksgiving time, and when CHRIST mas day when food is over and we relax then we take turns opening gifts. Draws out more. Most other families gifts are opened first thing then the meal and nothing left. Except children playing games.
alviebird almost 9 years ago
I wasn’t going to bring it up, but that’s why I do NOT celebrate Christmas. It is not biblical, and is not the date of Christ’s birth.
However, if you consider that Elizabeth got pregnant right after the course of Abia, and met the newly pregnant Mary six months later, you can count backwards to the conception date….. and find yourself right around December 25th. This also puts the birth at a time of year that makes perfect sense, late September.
Caldonia almost 9 years ago
My studies have lead me to believe no one can understand a joke.