Genie (and everyone else here) -- ever thought of bringing back (in your own lives, if not in the church) the "Twelves days of Christmas"?

I don't have a family, yet. But I'm seriously thinking about it when I do, especially if I have kids to help them ease out of the holiday as they go back to school... One of the things that always depressed me, a little: When I left for the holiday break, the school would be bedecked with red and green and stars from top to bottom, but the walls would be bare when I got back... How drab!

Another thing that irks me about commercial Christmas is the association of snow with the holiday -- even in Southern Virginia! What's wrong with celebrating *your* home for the holidays?! (it's not like Mary and Joseph had a white Christmas)

Why not decorate Christmas tree in the mall with miniature bicycles instead of sleds? Why do we pray for snow on December 24th, and curse it after the 26th?

Okay, that's the end of my rant...