Christmas is cancelled *sigh*

Christmas has always been about family. We don't celebrate it as a religious holiday because we believe that such rejoicing should occur year round, not one day a year. But we have always gotten the maternal side of our family together for Christmas dinner.

So today Mom called her sister to find out what we were doing for Christmas...turns out, we aren't invited. They aren't going anywhere and there was no invitation forthcoming. Mom issued an invitation and it was declined. Her other brother who usually attends has to divide his time between families and the distance to my parent's house would prohibit their attendance. My brother has to work so he and his wife can't come and my sister never comes. So Christmas is just going to be me and my parents. So..why bother. It will be just like any other Sunday. We'll go to our bible study in the morning and have lunch. We won't cook all the desserts for just three of us, no candy, no pies, no family...forget it. No games, no music...Christmas is cancelled.

So I guess I skip forward to the new year, which will likely be spent by myself. Pardon me, I'm going to a pity party now. I was just starting to get into the spirit in spite of the stress of moving the College just before Christmas. Now I'm well and truly depressed.