Does Christmas rock or suck? Languish: YOU DECIDE!

[Darth Wagtaros]

Ambivalent.  Forced to confront the abjection of my life's failure in comparison to parents' mansion, sister's new car/money, step-sister's even larger mansion, combined $200k household income, and children.  Have to travel.  But I get some gift cards, and see people I love, I guess.

Tell them they can mail the gift cards.  Stay home.  Go do something fulfilling on Xmas, like volunteer somewhere.

I concur.  I've had some bad Christmas' that I wish I had stayed home and watched A Christmas Story marathon or gone out and done something else.  Like go to this Fransciscan Monastery in Vermont.

[The Brain]

You get to drink glögg.

Would you happen to know if there is any common ancestry shared by glogg (mitt tits) and grog?

Not to my knowledge, no.

[Savonarola]

You get to drink glögg.

Would you happen to know if there is any common ancestry shared by glogg (mitt tits) and grog?

I don't know about glogg, but I've read that grog comes from a nickname for the British officer who introduced it to the navy. 

Wikipedia backs me up: 

The word originally referred to a drink made with water or "small beer" (a weak beer) and rum, which British Vice Admiral Edward Vernon introduced into the Royal Navy on 21 August 1740. Vernon wore a coat of grogram cloth and was nicknamed Old Grogram or Old Grog.

[KRonn]

Christmas rules.  It's fun to spoil the kids and laugh at them behind their backs for believing the Santa crap.

What about the Santa crap??      Don't ruin things for me!! You have to believe!!

[Barrister]

Christmas with kids is awesome.  Specially this year - every time a toy commercial comes on Timmy says "I'm going to ask Santa for that".

We had quite a few Chirstmases without kids and yeah, those can be pretty mellow affairs.

[derspiess]

Every time Tommy sees something he wants on TV I tell him to put it on his list.  Got him to start writing/spelling early that way.

[merithyn]

Christmas rules.  It's fun to spoil the kids and laugh at them behind their backs for believing the Santa crap.

What about the Santa crap??      Don't ruin things for me!! You have to believe!!

When my oldest two boys asked me outright if there was really a Santa just before Christmas one year, I told them that since I only gave them one present - and Santa gave them all of the rest - I would leave it up to them to decide if they believed in Santa or not.

They "believed" until they were 16.

[derspiess]

That's some skillful Mom-Fu there

[Malthus]

Every time Tommy sees something he wants on TV I tell him to put it on his list.  Got him to start writing/spelling early that way.

"If you can write a paragraph about why you want it, with no spelling mistakes, you can have it".

Not a bad notion ... 

[Neil]

Christmas with kids is awesome.  Specially this year - every time a toy commercial comes on Timmy says "I'm going to ask Santa for that".

You know, there are things that I occasionally regret about not having children, and Christmas is one of them.

[merithyn]

Christmas with kids is awesome.  Specially this year - every time a toy commercial comes on Timmy says "I'm going to ask Santa for that".

You know, there are things that I occasionally regret about not having children, and Christmas is one of them.

That's when having nieces and nephews come in. They're the absolute best for holidays. You can give them all of the horrible toys you pray no one gives your kids, and then send them all away.

[Neil]

Christmas with kids is awesome.  Specially this year - every time a toy commercial comes on Timmy says "I'm going to ask Santa for that".

You know, there are things that I occasionally regret about not having children, and Christmas is one of them.

That's when having nieces and nephews come in. They're the absolute best for holidays. You can give them all of the horrible toys you pray no one gives your kids, and then send them all away.

Yeah.  It's going to be nice this year.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Christmas with kids is awesome.  Specially this year - every time a toy commercial comes on Timmy says "I'm going to ask Santa for that".

You know, there are things that I occasionally regret about not having children, and Christmas is one of them.

Ya. Know how you feel.

[sbr]

Yepper.  Christmas with small children is my favorite holiday.  Christmas with 18-19 year old kids and adults, not so much.

I know my brother won't have kids, so I hope it is a very long time until I spend a Christmas with small children again.

[PDH]

That's when having nieces and nephews come in. They're the absolute best for holidays. You can give them all of the horrible toys you pray no one gives your kids, and then send them all away.

I am the uncle that gives the 3 year old boys a drum for Christmas.  Also, I buy sugar cereals for them to eat all day.

When they get older I am buying them cigars.