What is the best part of the Holiday season?

I don't really get into Christmas and for sure don't mess with Halloween. but i love the family part of what hoildays stand for.

Although I enjoy the holidays, the lights, the colors, and everyone rushing about to purchase that last minute gift, I personally must confess that I feel great relief when they are over. It is a big expense and every year I go into debt over Christmas, and usually don't get out of debt until June or July, just a few months before it's time to get back into debt again because it's Christmas time again! Last year, my daughter and I tried something different. Because we live so far apart from each other and it costs so much to buy the gift then mail it, we decided together that we would give a gift of charity "in behalf of". We used Heifer International, an organization that provides animals or trees, or bees, that people can use to generate cash from their produce in Third World countries. My daughter made her purchase/donation of ducks, and sheep in behalf of myself, and I purchased bees, and chickens, in her behalf. It's wonderful, as you get to feel that you did something good for someone else that they can have a hope and a future, and you also donated in someone else's behalf, totally unselfish giving! And the thing that's wonderful about Heifer International is that if you can't afford the cost of the whole gift, you can buy a share in it, and when enough shares have been collected or combined, then the donation of a steer or cow, or other more costly item is purchased and then donated to the family in need. It's a wonderful way to share the giving spirit of Christmas with others in need world wide.

I am not a fan of flying either during the winter months opal, but family is everything. even when we are totally different and do celebrate the same things.