A time to share (My Perfect Christmas)

Member Name: licclevicki

Product:	My Perfect Christmas
Date:	24/11/08 (81 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: love and laughter

Disadvantages: highly costly and can be stressful

The magic of christmas
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When l was young, every christmas was perfect. Perhaps because christmas was magical. I still had that belief in the christmas magic. As you get older and wiser you lose that sense of the magic of christmas. Having said that your christmas priorities change.
As a child christmas is about the presents, of course it is, christmas is at its best when you are young. But as an adult it tends to be about pleasing people.

Christmas has without a doubt become far too commercialised, with businesses praying on the christmas spirit to sell goods, and of course we usually succumb, because we want to bring smiles and laughter to our family and friends faces on that one day a year.

However as the credit crunch is hitting families hard, is it not time to reflect upon this? Take a step back and say well actually what makes a perfect christmas isnt the sackful of presents, its about the love, the laughter, the magic and the belief. Christmas time is after all a religious occassion which is often over looked.

So what makes my perfect christmas
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Ultimately my perfect christmas is about being with the people l love. Lets face it, these days families are very rarely able to all get together. With families often living apart, mine included, being together is rare opportunity, so christmas provides us with the time to do this.

Im a bit of a romantic too. The thought of spending christmas beside a log fire, where it is snowing outside is an appealing thought and is a dreamlike idea of christmas. How nice would it be to open the curtains on Christmas morning and find fields of neatly fallen snow... magical!

Christmas is about relaxing too, relaxing together and doing what usually sounds quite boring, watching TV together and eating lots of chocolates and traditional chrismas foods, such as mince pies and nuts, and you must not forget to have a christmas drink, or to leave Santa a mince pie!

I believe that christmas brings communities together, it is something many of us share in common, a celebration that majority of us celebrate, in which ever way we choose.

Christmas lights, christmas markets and general christmas festivities really bring the magic to christmas and there really is a sense of deep warmness about the thought of a cosy warm home with a big christmas tree that lights the whole room on christmas day, whilst singing silly christmas songs, because of too much of the christmas sherry.

My perfect christmas would be quite simple really, it would mean everyone would only give gifts they could afford. That the pleasure of christmas would be spending quality time together, watching christmas films, or playing games together and sharing laughter.

It seems that christmas can be a very stressful time of year for many families, my perfect christmas wouldnt be stressful at all, it would be stress free.... with a Turkey that cooks its self! Now doesnt that sound perfect?

Im sure we all share different ideas of our perfect christmas, the people we would like to be there etc. But lm sure we all agree that it should be a time of celebration, a fun time, one day a year that we share and take ourselves back to the magical christmas days we had as a child.
Thats what my perfect christmas is all about!

Summary: Remember what really matters!