The Week that Was Last Week...

No “Christ” in Christmas

I remember singing Christmas songs in elementary school, legitimate Christmas songs like “The First Noel” and “Away in a Manger” now everyone’s worried they’re going to offend by simply stating the word Christmas. I’ve always thought this was sad. If someone wishes me a Happy Hanukah I don’t get offended in the least, but apparently wishing someone a Merry Christmas is now an offensive act. I put together a monthly newsletter for our department last week and had a “Christmas Tree Factoid” in it. The Factoid focused solely on facts about Christmas Trees, like how many are used each year, how many lights are purchased annually for Christmas Trees, etc, nothing religious. I was then asked to remove it because of the use of the word Christmas… I had to replace it with a Festivus Trivia instead. I personally was offended. I’m sure I blew it out of proportion but it honestly depressed me to remove it. I think it made a sad statement regarding society, apparently we now live in a society where even saying “Christmas” without religious intent is offensive. I love Christmas season, but saw the stark reality last week that we really have moved away from a true Christ mas.

Brooklyn, Where Did Sleeping Beauty’s Shoe Go?

It finally happened; Britney had to dig something out of Brooklyn’s nose. We’ve always prided ourselves on the fact that our children had never swallowed something they shouldn’t have or shoved something in a hole that something shouldn’t be shoved… (seriously, it’s something to be proud of), but alas, all good things have to come to an end. We’ve noticed Brooklyn has started to stick things up her nose, but we’ve always caught her early in the act, before she really “lodged” something in there. Well, last week we had our first all out DIG IT OUT moment! Britney was in the bathroom getting ready for the day when she heard Brooklyn start crying. She went to find out what was wrong and saw a look of despair on Brooklyn’s face as she apologized for putting Sleeping Beauty’s shoe UP HER NOSE… Fortunately, after a struggle Brooklyn was able to get it out by blowing really, really hard. The best part of it though was she got more upset from having the shoe taken away from her afterwards than she did with having it stuck up her nose… Kids seriously have their priorities messed up! Well, we still have a couple of streaks going… we’ve never had kids running around outside naked, we’ve never had poop smeared on a wall and we've never had a kid shoot their eye out with a Daisy Red Rider BB Gun… (I’m knocking on wood right now to hopefully avoid an article next week proclaiming that all of these things happened this week).