Oldie but Goodie

My children, and subsequent conversation with friend Beth, inspired this rant last December. The Tampa Tribune published it and the rest is history.

How things change in a year.

Instead of coveting lights, my oldest now feels the need to tell everyone he doesn't celebrate Christmas. I mean everyone - a clerk at the ice-skating rink, our lawn maintenance man, the neighbor down the street. My youngest quickly adds that we celebrate Chanukah instead. Could it be that he doesn't want anyone to think we're Fox-watching fundies trying to shun commercialism? Who knows the thinking of two opinionated kids? I can barely keep my own thoughts straight. I'll tell you one thing: just going to the store with these two kids is an adventure.

In case you haven't read it, here's my piece of mind from December 2004.