Gabriel was talking about horoscopes earlier today, and I told him that things like horoscopes kind of sum up why we still put a Christmas tree up and decorate it AT Christmas time instead of any other time of year. We know it's dumb, and we don't believe in the shit behind it, but it's nice to participate in something with everybody else.
In contrast to Thanksgiving, I don't have to tell Gabriel the non white-washed version of Christmas, we can just talk about how Christmas is about buying shit we don't need and decorating trees and spending more money than we should because we're consumers and it's what we're taught to do. He doesn't ask questions about Jesus except "why do people believe in religion", and we get to take deep dives and explore shit and then we usually end up talking about how great it is to get presents and not have to worry about that other bullshit dude, Santa. We never did Santa or the Tooth Fairy or the Easter Bunny or anything like that with Gabriel, Allen and I weren't that kind of parental unit.
I do like Christmas traditions, though. Like eggnog. I fucking love eggnog, man. I made a second batch from one of my trusted bloggers and it was DELICIOUS.
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