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My girlfriend and I were out doing not-quite-so-last-minute Christmas shopping today. We went to “The Big City” of
"I'm Just Not Myself!"
Scranton, because we had plans on hitting Panera Bread, our favoritest place to go.
There was a two hour delay today so our “head start before the kids get off the bus this afternoon” plans were set back a bit, but, hey, we were heading out anyway (and we WERE going to hit Panera Bread!)
School started at 10:00. My friend’s son was back to school after a two week absence due to other issues but this morning he was bright eyed and bushy tailed and raring to go. Somewhere between the last time I saw him at 9:15 and the nurse calling us at 11:15, he “lost himself.”
“Please come and get him,” said the nurse on the phone. “His teacher sent him down to me because he’s just not himself.”
No fever, no barfing, nothing like that. No, poor little guy just seems out of sorts and “just isn’t himself.”
Wow. When I worked at the daycare center we were not allowed to call the parents unless the child had been throwing up or had a fever of at least 101.
We did some talking and realized that Sonny Boy knew that Mommy was shopping with me, and he was missing out on all the fun…and he had gym class today too, which wasn’t very appealing.
So his strategy almost worked – his evil plan worked on his teacher, and amazingly, the school nurse, but not on Mommy & Me. Interestingly enough, he was just fine when he got off the bus and was playing with his friends.
“But mom, I was awful sick when the nurse called you.”
Yeah, right. Hon, ya gotta get up pretty early in the morning to pull a fast one on ol’ Mom and Wizzy.
Boy, if only WE had been lucky enough to have such a gullible nurse. I could have gotten out of a LOT of school, simply by not “acting myself.”
And let me tell you, the chicken tortilla soup in a sourdough bread bowl was amazing….
SAD BOY pic courtesy of jodiwilldare, Creative Commons
This was originally posted on my PikeWaynePABlog.com blog. I generally do not “recycle” my posts from there to here…but I decided to make a “crossover post” this time.
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“Happy Holidays” has been a seasonal greeting since way before I was born. My parents had a recording of Bing Crosby
Happy Holidays from Hawley
singing “Happy holidays…..happy holidays….” This was an acceptable greeting long before anything was politically correct, and in fact, lots of stuff was politically incorrect. There is no reason why “Happy Holidays” should be offensive.
Yet, some Christians are offended by it. According to them, the proper term should be “Merry Christmas,” since that is the “main” holiday we are celebrating (at least in their eyes.)
Actually I find it interesting that many Christians are upset about the idea of Christ being removed from Christmas…when Christmas was never a holiday He asked us to celebrate for Him, anyway.
Nowhere in the Bible are we commanded to celebrate Christmas, or the birth of Christ. In fact, many Christians don’t even celebrate it. Why?
Because, in their eyes, Christmas is nothing but a string of pagan-rooted traditions that have been Christianized…never mind the greed and materialism bred by this holiday. The Puritans refused to acknowlege Christmas; to this day there are different sects (including 7th Day Adventists and various fundamentalist believers) who do not observe Christmas.
I am not one of them. I like my Christmas tree, and I don’t worship it, and I could do without it (it’s rather a pain to put up, decorate, and take down…). I enjoy giving gifts to family and friends.
I like the lights, I like the decorations. I even like Santa Claus. We never taught our kids to believe in Santa-from-the-North-Pole-who-delivers-presents-to-good-kids (but we also taught them not to rain on someone else’s Santa parade…) I always felt sorry for the poor children who were very good but never got much from Santa. (Thankfully, we have the Marines filling in for Santa, but still….)
Anyway, I like “Happy Holidays” because it IS inclusive. I do not know many people who celebrate Hanukkah, but I’d like to wish them a happy holiday anyway. I don’t know of anyone who celebrates Kwaanza, and I really don’t know much about the celebration, but I’d like those who celebrate it to be included in my greeting.
And I’d like to think that when others say “Happy Holidays” that they are including Christmas in that greeting as well.
That’s enough for my soapbox for today. Click the picture below and enjoy the show I put together. I call it “Happy Hawley-Days!”
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