((((((((Bardog))))))))))

Didn't want to admit it.......yet I feel exactly the same way you do this year and last year!

I POKED and PRODDED myself (teehee.....just a bit-o-mental candy) today.......TO MAKE MYSELF FEEL THE SPIRIT!

Know what I did? Every year we have a "Christmas Angel" tree at work........and it wasn't put in place till yesterday (our company just moved to another town and things have been topsy turvy since the move) and so I had to be in the office and I was waiting to talk to the "big honcho" and I spied the tree with all the cards with descriptions of all the kids and young adults (they are all mentally challenged) on it....and I perused them all and chose two........and talked to the HMFIC (head mother fucker in charge.....lol....the boss......"big honcho").....and went back to work and kept thinking of one "angel" I didn't choose.......and went back at the end of my day and his card was still on the tree so I took him too.......and NOW I have a purpose and "THE SPIRIT"!

You say that your kids are nearly passed the point of....."the reason to get excited for Christmas".........and so I offer you a "reason"! Go to a local charity....see what they NEED....check your local Salvation Army chapter (is where my "angels" from the tree are from)! It's the feeling of giving and knowing you made a diffence that might be lacking in your spirit!

Just a thought hun!

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Minds are like parachutes. They only work when they are open.

~Thomas Dewar~