As I moved the Christmas calendar mouse to today’s date, I smiled, shook my head and asked myself “Why do I continue to do this?” My kids are all grown up and gone. I don’t see my younger Grandkids on a daily basis (plus they are into the whole Elf on the Shelf churn.) My older Grandkids are in Florida, and even if they were here, they wouldn’t give a damn about this so-called tradition.
So what am I doing messing with moving this silly little mouse everyday thru the 24 days leading up to Christmas?
(For a listing of some world-wide stupid/crazy Christmas traditions that people do (click here.) Allow me to confess however, that Number 4 sounds like a winner-winner to me:
And as for why we continue to do silly things like this at Christmas time with no clue as to why we do so, it can be explained with only one word as Tevye shows here:
Note: When the above made it to Buzzy’s FB page, my Daughter Reagan had this comment:
Maybe that is why I keep doing it after all – it brings back nice memories of Christmases past! Thank you Reagan! Love you too!