It's That Time of Year Again!

Its the most wonderful time of the year!! ...not really. This is the time when shopping malls and parking garages are filled to the brim, and people wait in lines for hours to buy what they only think they really need. Not that i'm not a fan of Chsirtmas- i am, but mostly the family part- but i absolutely detest the materialization of a holiday that's supposed to be about family and charity. Why should this be the only time of year when people are expected to think of others? Why were we so selfish to begin with?

In my family we don't celebrate the religious art of Christmas, but we do like to get together and give back to others in need.When i was a kid we would voluntter with my Girl Scout Troop to be on RCTV, the local TV channel, and we would be "santa's elves" and we wopuld get presents from donors for Toys For Tots and we would bring children up to sit on Santa's lap.

Not that i didn't always find that creepy...lets just all bring our young children to sit on some strange man's lap! If they were my teenage daughters that'd be inappropriate, but for some reason it's deemed OK for young children. *sigh*