It’s the holiday season, the time of year when everyone is supposed to be on their best behavior and put up with the most crap from people. Drunk relatives at dinner on the holiday, relatives in jail on the holiday, gossipers, mean spirited people, they all need love during the holidays.
Regardless of the dysfunction in your own family, it’s good form to swallow your pride, show up and smile and make like you like these people. They are after all the reason you are the way that you are, and we’re proud of that aren’t we?
So go ahead and use this post as your personal purge place of all that is your holiday irritation. Something happen every holiday that you’re not looking forward too? We’ll comfort you, share here, we all have that one thing that we know will happen that really gets under our skin.
I’ll start. Growing up, my Mom didn’t express a lot of care, affection or any of that sort of gushiness you expect from mothers that love their kids to death. However, the grandkids are a different story, they get love, gushiness, the whole ball of wax. It grosses me out. I’m glad for the kids, they need it and should have it, so it’s great that she does it for them, I just can’t help but wonder if it’s an act to be accepted.
It has been brought to my attention on more than one occasion that I’m not very affectionate. It’s true, I’m not. The rerason, I believe is because I didn’t grow up arounf affectionate people, it wasn’t a behavior I learned. On the contrary in fact, aside from my sisters, hugging and all that jazz only happened on Holidays.
That’s just an explanation of why I believe this is the way I am, its not exactly the best way to be, mind you I hugged my son like crazy when he was little. I give him his space usually now.
The problem with that is this, people around me feel neglected and that I’m cold, it doesn’t help that I have a sharp tongue.
I know I’m not the only one like this, my family isn’t the only family that’s not what I call “touchy feely”. Has it affected your relationships? If so, what have you done to mend it?
I try to remind my family that I do love them and overall they know I care, I’m sure its the same with your family, tell me what steps you take and the little things you do to show your family you care.
It has been a long time since the last time I just stumbled across these interwebs and discovered what was out there to be discovered so today…I stumbled. I like having the stumble toolbar because when I get bored, or the boys are hogging the tv’s with their games and cops or whatever, I can find something to do just by clicking on the stumble button.
I wear nothing but silver jewelry and love unusual, interesting pieces, much like what’s offered at Made with Molecules. I thought this was very cool, I want the alcohol earrings.
I thought this comic was pretty funny and wanted to share it with you . I also stumbled onto this very fun video, watch as this sweet husband and wife (both 90 years old), who have been married for 62 years, play the piano together in the atrium of the Mayo Clinic.
. I also 
