Happy Holidays | Table for Five

December 1, 2011 By Elizabeth

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It’s okay to wish me a Merry Christmas. You don’t have to say Happy Holidays, unless you want to.

I’m not religious, but I sing Christmas carols and have a Nativity I put out at Christmas. For me, Christmas is about traditions. My parents gave me the Nativity they had been putting out for years, when they decided to upgrade to a fancier one. I love it.

I’m a huge geek about Christmas. We went to Walmart last night, which was decorated from top to bottom, and after we walked in, I let out a huge sigh and said, to no one in particular, I love Christmas.

I love garland and lights, I love driving by houses at night that are all lit up. I love Christmas commercials – the one for Folgers, where the guy comes home from the Army and his sister says “you’re my present this year”? Chokes me up every time.

I LOVE Christmas music, I’ve had the radio in the van tuned to the all Christmas music station since before Thanksgiving. I love Christmas movies, and have a stack of them I watch over and over.

I love the plush singing snowmen that Hallmark sells every year. I love the Peppermint Stick ice cream that Quality Dairy only sells at Christmas.

I completely understand people of other faiths feeling left out this time of year, and I never want to offend anyone, so in my emails and other social media communication, I stick to Happy Holidays, just to be safe.

So go ahead and say Merry Christmas to me, or Happy Holidays, or Happy Chrismakwanzukkah, or Happy Festivus (the holiday for the rest of us!), whatever you’d like. As long as we are all Merry and Happy this time of year, I’m good.