Merry CHRISTmas!

To my dear readers,

I wish you a relaxing, non-stress-inducing Christmas. Personally, I've found that spending Christmas with my mom, dad, dogs, and Guinea Pigs to be much more enjoyable. Don't get me wrong, I love spending time with family. Like last year, all of my family on my dad's side were around (which doesn't happen that often). My one cousin did sock me in the eye with a snowball, though. Although my other, older cousin threw a snowball at him to avenge my injury. It was the nicest thing he had ever done for me in my life!

Anyways, this Christmas there's two new additions to the family. My twenty-year-old, flea-bitten (metallic silver with metallic copper specks), Polish Arabian mare Dixie (I call her Sweetpea) and my mom/dad's ten-year-old, white/grey, Spanish Mustang gelding Phantom.

One thing I have to admit is that this year Christmas doesn't seem as cheery. It could be because cheeriness is on a downfall, or maybe it's because Christmas is slowly losing its meaning. As the news says, "Christmas is quickly becoming a secular holiday." With the long-dead Chris Kringle taking over the minds of children everywhere, the ban on saying "Merry Christmas" in many stores because it might "offend" someone, the focus Americans have on presents and selfish nonsense, the schools figuratively (and possibly actually) crossing out the "Christ" is CHRISTmas, and the church failing miserably to combat all of this, the true meaning of Christmas is slowly disappearing. Possibly in the next forty or fifty years, many will have forgotten what Christmas means. With the government-depending robots this country is creating, it will be a wonder if more than half of the population celebrates Christmas as a religious holiday! But, this is all just the observation of a homeschooled girl who watches too much news with her dad and listens to too much Ken Ham. So, I guess this Christmas I'll rejoice in the birth of our Savior and grieve over the silent death of the ideals of our Founding Fathers.

I bid you a Merry CHRISTmas and a Happy New Year, my ever faithful readers.