Santa Clause is comming!

There is a magic in the air as Christmas draws achingly closer. Every year its the same with me, I don't sleep until Christmas Day, around noon. I have always been excitable when it comes to the Holidays whether it was Halloween Christmas or July 4th, I always get all chipper and excited. I think its because I since a time when family gets together or when friends gather to have fun. One doesn't get the chance to do this often.So as I sit here in my bedroom, ignoring my family I cant help but smile sardonically. I love the holidays and I LOVE my family....But sometimes its just to much having to put them together. Take for instance our family tradition of a Christmas Eve party with my dads side of the family. For as long as I could remember we had this tradition we would always go over to my grandmothers apartment and stuff the whole family into the tiny apartment and have copious amounts of fun. After my grandmother died we have been having it at my Aunts house out in the country, but we still have it. Then on Christmas Day, we go over to my Grandmothers house on my Moms side of the family. This house is filled to the brim with the most redneck type of people you could ever find. My mom has two older brothers and two younger brothers, she is the only girl. Then there is my cousins...all 56 of them..Shocked...not nearly as I was when the final figure came in. My Uncles have all been married (or not) so many times that they have breded  to many children. Then there are the distant cousins...Now my cousin Heather married this nice Hispanic man and has 4 children and one on the way....My cousin Kim has 6 children and is married to a nice Black man. Then their is my cousin Chris whom has a 8 month son. And the list goes on...Anyways besides family there is the friends of the family...A large Hispanic family that we love dearly, Two African American families whom we love dearly, My Uncle Dewayne's newest girlfriend and her family, and so on...So I usually try to avoid staying for too long. One, because I hate two members of that family, and Two, because I am not a fan of large crowd.

I would rather spend my Christmas Day hidden away at home with my immediate family. But whatever...The saddest thing about this year is that my church has pushed back the time of the Christmas Eve Service. To 10pm at night. I will be out in the country at that time, then after that I will be going to pick up my sister from work, then I have to bake cookies, and play SANTA for my niece lol, I love that part...Well I gotta go...I have forgotten some gifts and need to run to the store...Sigh...heaven help me .....MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!!