I spent an hour on the phone tonight with my boyfriend’s mom. I should’ve been studying for an impossible final that I have tomorrow and that I didn’t have time to study for today because I made copies through lunch and had no prep, but I would talk to her over reading about the politics of religion any day. We’re going into the city tomorrow to see the tree at Rockefeller center and I cannot wait. Being that I grew up in the southeast rather than the glorious northeast, and the motherland never really had snow, or real trees, or even chilly Christmas eves, I didn’t get to experience all the Christmas nuances that this area has to offer when I was a child, so I tend to value them ten-fold as an adult.
We started talking about the plans for tomorrow night, the botanical gardens, followed by dinner, and then of course, viewing of the tree, and from there began discussing how we were going to split the time between our two families this Christmas. My family is spending Christmas eve at his house, he’ll stop here Christmas day afternoon, we’ll make our way to his grandmother’s eventually. Through this conversation I found myself so excited just to spend time with him, and our families, and see the two blended together seamlessly, which makes us miraculously lucky given the fact that so many couples are not lucky enough to have their families be even remotely interested in each other, let alone, enjoy spending time together. This made me realize that my recent stress over Christmas gifts or throwing the perfect party for my class and that damned traffic on the way home from the mall the other night are completely worthless and I found that they tied in perfectly to this new campaign , “The Advent Conspiracy” that my dad turned me on to. The campaign, started three years ago by three young pastors attempts to revitalize Christmas and the season by putting religion back into the holiday and challenging people to “Recapture the beauty of christmas” or “worship the way they (the shepherds and wise men) did, more fully” to spend less on gifts and more time with each other, or being altruistic. I find it deeply moving, so I’ve included a few of their promos for your viewing
Tags: boyfriend, christmas, finals, northeast, parents, School, the advent conspiracy
