We sense something is amiss. Something does not feel right. Everywhere you look it's "Christmas" season in full swing. Or is it? My earlier post got many of you commenting your own observations and frustrations. There is something not-quite-right about the season ahead.
This post begins a several-part series about advent. I'll share information & ideas from our home and community later. For now, I want to share a few questions from our hearts...
What holiday(s) do you celebrate?
How?
Why?
5 comments:
We celebrate Thanksgiving,Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Valentine's Day and Independence Day. I love celebrating with family and friends, but I hate the pressure to spend too much at Christmas.
In Australia we celebrate Australia Day which is to celebrate all we are and have achieved, Easter and Christmas. We dont indulge in Halloween although I have been told by friends at home that it is growing as a holiday. Because of Miss 4 we are going to be clelbrating a few more holidays when we move home to Aus. Thanks Giving and 4th of July have been added due to Miss 4's cultural heritage. I struggle with the fact that alot of our friends push the Santa thing onto their kids and although Miss 4 didnt even know who "Santa" was when she became part of our family, due to preschool she now knows all about it. She said last week that Santa brings us a present to remind us to sing happy birthday to Jesus.........I love the way she thinks : )
Toodles,
AussieMom
the baileys recognize a few rather odd holidays among the standards. we make a big deal of ground hog's day in february and st. crispian's day in october simply because it's fun to have a few "made-up" holidays to share with family and friends. tim and i also share a mutual irritation with valentine's day, so we celebrate our zoka-versary, larry-versary, kiss-iversary (etc.) instead. christmas is the biggest holiday by choice as well as by default - it is sadly the only time of year that extended family is available for fellowship, and we try to make the most of that. from a liturgical standpoint, easter is where i would love to focus our family holiday energy, but we have yet to figure out a way to do this. it probably would help if it had more sentimental trappings and rituals (like the christmas ornaments we look forward to unpacking each year), but no "easterified" equivalents to chestnuts roasting on an open fire seem obvious to me. i'd love suggestions!
whitney - I love your holidays, and just by titles I can guess why you celebrate! :)
On the Easter note, I wrote about our Seder celebration last year (March archives), which I think will likely become a tradition for us. It fills in that gathering/celebrating desire that seems harder to create at Easter time.
The hard thing, which you all alluded to, is choosing your celebration & holidays with the "pressure" around us to do things as others do. I wonder who or what is the source of that pressure?
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