Christmas is soo near! Can you feel it? What does CHRISTMAS means to you?

:( yah.. i felt so guilty while i was reading your post... i guess i've just been too busy buying gifts and rushing... i almost forgot the true meaning, and the celebration of Jesus' birthday! i feel so bad... :( thanks for the reminder.. :) but while i was buying things, my only intention was to make my loved-ones happy, and i'd like to make them feel they're really special... i guess it's still part of Jesus' celebration... I'm sure He'll be happy, because my intention was to make other people happy. :) i also gave some thought to the gifts that I bought.. i made sure that those were really the ones that they need... i've also been full of love.. :) haha.. Merry Christmas to you, Ms. Katie! :)

Christmas means to me to spend time with your family and friends and enjoying near the end of the year

I can feel the excitement all around me, when I take my newty-dog on the beach it's like an expectant feeling from nature coming with the end of the year. My boys are excited and I explained to them about presents and why we give them and about poor starving children who would be happy to just have something to eat. Christmas is a magical time, warm and cosy with carols to sing and the Christmas story to remember and restore our faith. There is always so much hope in case this is the year when the magic begins again. I hope that this year you give and recieve lots of gifts of love so you are not sad!

well to tell the truth i don t really believe in god but seeing the generosity nd enthusiasum among my friends gives me a warm feeling....thats all that christmas means to me

while presents are nice and I enjoy giving gift to others. the holiday is all about jesus christ. after all it is called christmas for a reason. it is to celebrate his birth even though it was not on christmas day this is the day we choose to celebrate the birth of the most important person ever born! merry christmas!!!

It don't feel like Christmas to me really yet. I live in central Michigan and we have no snow, so that is really putting a damper on getting in the spirit. On top of that, we have some Christmas vandels that have taken over our area and are destoying peoples decorations. We put them back up after this happends, but it just happends again. Some, actually most people have either not put them back up, or have heard of it happening and take theirs down so that they don't get ruined. So hardly anyone has decorations up. It is sad really that someone has to do this. We do celebrate the birth of Jesus, but being of that religion, we do not celebrate this around Christmas, but everyday. I think that is how it should be.

I am always excited at Christmas. It's a great time for family get togethers, etc. But, this year. I am sad cause my sister is ill.

I can't wait until Christmas! And yes, it's because of the gifts. But not what I'm recieving. It is because I want my family to open the gifts I got for them. Esp my brother this year because I got him and my SIL lots of great gifts for their new baby due in a few months. I don't celebrate the religious aspect of Christmas.

The most expensive period of the year. Have to buy so many gifts and cards ;-)) xxx

MY family love this time of year to us it's just a good place to be. chatching up with all the ones we can't get to talk everyday,earing with each other seeing that we made it to another year having fun with the ones we miss and love .. it's not so much the presents that make the chritmas season it our family it's a time out of the year to be gether and letting the ones we see everyday and the ones we don't just to get together for the love food and fun.christmas is just as it says wonderful time of the year....

Yes I can feel Christmas drawing near. It's not just the cooling of the weather at night but it's just something in the atmosphere. In our place as Christmas draws near the people start putting up their stall in preparation for selling the fireworks that they make. Christmas for me means a time to get together with the family members in far places. It's a time to celebrate that we were given another year to celebrate being together as one whole family. Most of us don't even have gifts to give to the members of our family, its our presence during that special day that makes our family members happy.

To me the holidays are about family, really. That is why I have started to get happier about Thanksgiving rather than Christmas. Thanksgiving is just about eating and being with your family and not about running around and getting presents and worrying about whether or not you got a good one for people.

Christmas sucks because it's way too commercialized.

cristmas....it is not fest 4 me. dis is only leave 4 me.which i enjoy a lot.

i would say christmas means spending time with family, but my hubby is in the marine corps and we are stationed on the other side of the country, away from all our family that live on the east coast. but i am thankful that ill have my husband home for the holidays this year, rather than in iraq !

It's not the glow you feel when snow appears, It's not the Christmas card you've sent for years, Not the joyful sound when sleigh bells ring, Or the merry songs children sing. The little things you do on Christmas Day Will not bring back the friend you've turned away. So may I suggest the secret of Christmas Is not the things you do at Christmas time, But the little things you do all year through. So This year when you are in the Christmas spirit and you are thankful for what you have and for the people in your life Maybe take some time and help someone who may not be as fortunate as yourself Whether it be to donate a toy..food or money maybe just to help a friend out who is in need I can tell you your heart and spirit will feel good That is what Christmas is all about The giving of ones self and the joy of giving

actually christmas is my birthday. so it means lots of presents for me. also i get to give presents to other people. so its all about presents for me.

Christmans to me means a day when i'm oblidged to go to church. I am proud of the fact that i don't go to church on sundays despite being a catholic however christman and easter are the only two times i do go. Also because the eveniroment is more joyous and piur than a regular sunday.

No, it means nothing to me because I am muslim.

For me it's the tradition of going to the midnight service with my family. We hardly ever get together as one big clan throughout the rest of the year. :(