Christmas

My parents and the whole entire rest of my family celebrates Christmas, so I therefore celebrate Christmas, but like you we mostly just enjoy the tradition, even my father the retired Episcopal Priest doesn't blather on about God and the so called Birth of Jesus.  We are very much a free thinking type of family.  We believe what we want.  I like Christmas and I like presents and I like cookies and I like Christmas Trees and I like singing and I like family gatherings, and I like turkey, and I like wine,  but I do not like fruit cake..he he.

Plus my mom said that if we don't believe in Santa then we don't get presents from him...This year I finally said that's okay then the present you were gonna write from Santa will just say from Mom and Dad instead so it's all good!

I told my 6 year its a time of year where you are supposed to show kindness and generosity towards others. His reply was"Well aren't you supposed to do that all the time?" I love my kid.

Then i pointed out its also a time of year that family can get together and spend time with each other and he nodded and said"Ok...but wouldn't it be better to do it in summer when they could drive better?" Again..love my kid.

First we celebrate Xmas, just as a happy moment. Nothing to do with any religious belief.

It does not matter we have a tree or not, but I may give a gift to the kids directly.....not pretend that Santa Claus exist. They know that santa does not exist and has never existed. I have one daughter 6 yrs and a son 1.5 yrs.

This is a time just to be with my kids, since I am busy anyway.