Christmas Is...

There's a song that Bing Crosby sings on one of his Christmas albums called "Christmas IS..." And I was just thinking of how much I hate it when people say certain things during Christmas time don't really matter, like the lights and tree and food and gifts and Santa Claus, and candy canes, and the list goes on...I hate that. Of course these things matter. Why have we been doing them for hundreds of years?! Christmas is whatever it is, and you can't say that it isn't those things above. That is what Christmas is, even if they symbolize more important things than what they really are. It is all part of Christmas and it is all important, if we took those things away, let's face it, our Christmas wouldn't feel like Christmas. So this post is just to say that I love and appreciate all the things that make Christmas what it is to me.