Comments on Birthblessed!: Should Christians do Santa, or not?

Thanks for this, Amy. I'm emerging from my re...

2011-12-27T09:42:28.630-06:00

Thanks for this, Amy. I'm emerging from my religious cocoon and finding my way out into the world and following your trailblazed path.

We do Santa and my dd11 refuses to entertain the idea that "he" doesn't exist. Dd7 is full on into "asking" Santa for things even though we've only hit the mall Santa once like 4 years ago. Dh and I enjoy the stocking thing and the excitement with the kids and aren't about to stop Santa, ever. My mom still did stocking stuffers for me and dh up until her last Christmas when I was 27.

The problem occurs with our Christian friends who expect my family, led by a non-Christian man to abide by their standards. I'm grateful for the freedom I now feel to turn back to them and reply that I don't hold non-Christians to Christian standards.

And really, I didn't feel much Christ in this Christmas and that felt sad. But I felt a lot of family togetherness, love and resourcefulness and (hold onto your hat) gratitude from a 'tween!

As for me and my house, we will continue to leave cookies and veggies on the hearth for the man in the red suit.

Brenda/Mrsborch

I jumped over here from Chloe's blog, ironical...

2011-12-26T17:27:42.801-06:00

I jumped over here from Chloe's blog, ironically (how come you don't post that you've updated on Facebook?? but I digress). Anyway, all that just to say...my husband is going to alienate *me* if he follows through on his impulsive thoughts of telling our youngest two (almost 5 and 7) outright that Santa is not real. "It's a lie," he says. "So is 95% of what we call Christmas," I say. And the time to decide this should have been before we started playing Santa, not after. Sigh.

Andrea/AndreaBT

Thank you for commenting on my blog. Two things h...

2011-12-22T07:54:13.869-06:00

Thank you for commenting on my blog.
Two things here stand out to me that I'd like to comment on -- first I, too, have heard MUCH about keeping CHRIST in Christmas and it's kinda starting to bother me because it DOES seem aimed at secular Christmas. Here's the thing,... why would expect secular Christmas to look any different, how could we expect non-Christians to celebrate Christ? As a reminder to Christians to not lose focus it's fine, as a battle cry to American, secular Christmas it makes no sense.
And the other thing is that I completely agree with the fact that a lot of how we (as Americans, as a whole) celebrate Christmas doesn't exactly honor or reflect Christ.. and that's where the admonition to keep Christ in Christmas WOULD be appropriate.. to remind Christians not to get caught up in all of the traditions and preparations and forget WHY you're doing it. We keep our spending limit low (and thereby our shopping frenzy low,) we choose our traditions carefully and we try not to overplan. There's several things we can do to not be overwhelmed by all the STUFF. Thanks!