Getting into the REAL Spirit of the Season!

Lately, I've noticed that people just don't get what this season is really about!

As a child we come under the impression that Xmas is all about the presents, the tree, and the holly jolly Santa Claus.

We then grow up and discover that all that is covering up the true reason for the season.

I think that too many people have forgotten this little fact.

There's a song called Christmas with a capital C that talks about the saying "Happy Holidays" One part of the song says that there are a lot of holidays in February, but you don't say Happy Holidays, You say what it is.

The thing that the song says that I like the most is that Happy Holidays is said because the do not want to admit the real meaning of the holiday. And after 2000 years Jesus Christ is still intimidating people!

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Happy Birthday Jami!!!!

Today is my little sister's 11th birthday.

I can remember when she was born.....Oh! that was a crazy day!

The day she was born. I was 9 years old and in the 3rd grade. We were in inside recess (it was too cold outside) when a voice came over the announcements saying " Will you please send Jennifer to the office, her dad is here to pick her up." I sat there confused for a moment and then I realized what was going on. "My mom's having a baby!!!" I yelled to others as I left the school.

My brother, who was 6 at that time, and I were waiting very impatiently at the hospital for hours, until finally we were sent home with our grandparents to wait for the news. At about 6, the phone rang and the first question that came to me was "Well, it is a boy or a girl?" My grandma smiled and said, "It's a girl!" I was thrilled! I began skipping around the house yelling "I have a baby sister!!" My brother, devastated by the idea of not having a little brother, laid his head down and began to cry.

Over the years, I think my brother has become used to having a little sister as have I
I hope she has a great Birthday!
I LOVE YOU JAMI!!!!!!

Do You Even Know Me!?

• Why do I suddenly feel like an outcast?
• Can you see through me?-----Have I become transparent?---I feel like many can not see me or hear me. I' m a real person too, with thought, cares and feelings! I know that I shouldn't care a whole what other people say or think about me because in the long run they are not what I'm am living for....but I would like to be noticed!
• What is it that is so wrong with me?----I feel like there are people in my life that treat and avoid me like the plague.

I just don't get people sometimes! I guess I am just one of those people who blend in. But I don't want to blend in!

I am a great person and I wanna stand out!!

I'm just not sure I know how!

Picture Perfect.....Ya not so much!

So I was at a dance this weekend, and thrilled to be around all my friends. Yet some of those very friends were the cause of my Winter Formal Fluster. We went out to the lobby to take pictures and all of a sudden I was handed 2 or 3 cameras and heard my so called FRIENDS say "oh Jen's taking the picture!"

What!!!!!!

I was the photographer!

I was going to be on the outside of the camera instead of inside the comfort of the picture!

I kept all of my feelings in until each of the cameras had gotten their shot. I then ran to my boyfriend's arms and let it all out.

I couldn't believe they would do that to me.

I guess this was one of the many moments in life that you question the quality of some your friends. I came to the conclusion that I wasn't as close to them as I originally thought and hoped. It stinks that the conclusion had to punch me in the face.

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