Oh how the holidays have changed...

It's Christmas Eve..you get in bed but you cannot possibly fall asleep cause Santa is on his way and when you wake up, depending on your behavior that year, there will either be LOTS of shiny, new, Christmas toys...or a lump of coal. How are you supposed to sleep with the anticipation??

Remember the good ol days..

Now as an adult, Christmas Eve looks a bit more like this... we have just left church with the family, I probably had too much to drink at dinner and am now either still buzzed or slightly hungover. When we get home, I am either finishing wrapping up my presents for my family or helping wrap "Santa's" gifts. My oh my..how the times have changed.

That's not the only thing that has changed, below are a few things that have changed over the years, and now that I am in my 20's ..I am noticing the holidays are not as much fun as they used to be...

Christmas break is like a day..remember when we were in middle school or high school and we got a solid week, if not two weeks, off of school..and let's talk about college when we got almost a whole month off!! Now I get the day of..luckily I have some vacation days saved up..NOT enough to take a month off though!


The holidays are a MILLION times more stressful. Remember the good ol days when your parents just did ALL the shopping and all you had to do was eat the Christmas cookies that you never saw your mom make but they were always in the kitchen..yeah now I have to help with the shopping, help with the baking, and help with the clean up. AND I have to shop for like a thousand people, between family, friends, co-workers..it is SO MUCH!

Gaining weight..so this is serious people. When I was 12 my sister and I would eat cookies until we passed out. Now I eat a cookie and I have to walk around the house a thousand times. Have a glass of eggnog or a holiday beer..mine as well throw all my pants out cause those won't fit for awhile. What gives?!


So they always say home is where the heart is..well listen up..home is where there is always food in the kitchen, there is always wine to be had and cold beer in the fridge, you can be in sweatpants and never leave the house and still somehow you will eat at least three meals a day. Mom's house is home, not my townhouse in Richmond, that has cheese sticks, yogurt, and Bud light in the fridge..

It is no longer acceptable to be single during the holidays, between the thousand of coupley things going on, the things that are NOT acceptable to do by yourself, the company and holiday parties that you are invited to... it is totally and completely unacceptable to be single. Guess I am out of luck for the holidays.

Have they built time machines yet..I am over this "holidays as an adult" crap..

I want cookies with frosting and sprinkles on it, hot cocoa with 4 maybe 5 BIG marshmallows in it, mailing letters to Santa, leaving cookies and carrots out for Santa and his reindeer, I want to wake up Christmas morning to what seems like hundreds of presents..

At least there are mimosas Christmas morning, that helps.

Happy Holidays Ya'll