Merry CHRISTmas!!

Today, we celebrate the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ. I'm not much into the "Santa" thing, as Santa is really just a pagan propaganda thing that promotes some questionable morals. But I don't think Santa is evil, either. My kids stopped believing in Santa by the time they were five, and they know where their presents come from. This year, mostly from the Meems. My mom went WAY overboard this year, and like I said, I couldn't stop her. Maybe she won the lottery without me knowing.

Yes, I know there aren't any ornaments on the tree... When Aidan moved back home, a ton of her stuff went into the garage, and she blocked in all my stuff. So, rather than break my neck climbing over a bunch of miscellaneous flimsy boxes, I decided the tree looked perfect with just the lights. My mom ordered this tree from Santa's Best, and it has a remote control that has 52 different ways to set the lights. She bought it because Ellen had one on her show. My mom LOVES Ellen...

So, this morning, Joe and Aidan said they'd be up at 7:00 am to open the Christmas mound, but they're still sleeping. I got the 21 pound turkey (Aidan bought it) for 4 into the oven, so it'll be done before Aidan has to go to work.

I say four for dinner, because Aidan's new boyfriend, Cody, is coming to celebrate with us. Cody's name is interesting, and it turns out his parents named him after none other than William "Buffalo Bill" Cody. I did an entire post about Buffalo Bill way back, so I'd learned a lot about him. But Aidan is another story...this is how it played out:

Aidan: Cody was named after some cowboy dude from a long time ago.
Me: Oh, Buffalo Bill!
Aidan: (laughing) No, he was named after a REAL guy.
Me: (laughing) Buffalo Bill Cody WAS a real guy?
Aidan: Whhhhat?! I thought he was a legend, like Johnny Appleseed.
Me: (laughing) No, he was real. He was a big time cowboy in his time. He wrote stories, and he killed a lot of buffalo and had his own Wild West Show.
Aidan: (working feverishly on her iPhone): Then whose this chick? I Googled him but got this girl.

Me: (I didn't need to look at the pic to know who it was) Annie Oakley.
Aidan: HOW DID YOU KNOW THAT?
Me: (laughing) Because she was a sharpshooter in his show.
Aidan: (scrolling through pictures on her phone) Where's his blue buffalo?
Me: What?
Aidan: I thought Buffalo Bill was the guy who rode around on a blue buffalo.
Me: (laughing) You're thinking of Paul Bunyan and his blue ox!!!
Aidan: (laughing) Oh yeah! This is funny. Now I have something to tease Cody about. I'll tell him he was named after a guy who loved mullets.

And with that, she changed his avatar in her phone to this:

Okay, back to Christmas talk. When I woke up this morning, I put Monet is her Christmas jammies. She pretty much hated it, as you can tell by the "I hate you" shooting from her eyes.

And "the look" just got worse:

And didn't get any better when I changed her into her Christmas dress:

So, I had mercy and took it off so she could run around naked, happy, and free. :)

Wow, the kids are still sleeping. I could've slept in.

Anyway, have a very Merry Christmas, and remember that the holiday isn't about gifts, or turkey, or greed, or treasure, or material things, but about the arrival into our world of our savior, Jesus.