Merry Christmas (belated)

I'm only 4 days late! But in my defense I've been out of town, I'm tired and I'm just lazy.

We had an pretty good Christmas this year. By the looks of it someone would think my children are either extraordinary or held Santa at gunpoint. We got to see family we haven't seen in years, some of which my children got to meet for the first time. Overall, I'd say it was a wonderful Christmas.

The worst part is probably that 8 hour drive (each way) with 3 children. Thank goodness for portable dvd players. However, if I had to hear High School Musical any more I can't guarantee I wouldn't have swerved into a light pole.

My favorite part about going home to visit, is probably the food. Missouri has the hands down best Mexican and Chinese food. You'd think with the diversity of an Army base the food selections would be great, but they arent'. I have yet to find any good Chinese. (food not people, I'm sure all the people are wonderful).

But all good things must come to an end. So home is where I went. When I pulled onto post I seen the snow covered ground, the gate guards standing in the cold, and the Menorah in the middle of the nativity scene??? Now this is where I get confused.

Granted I'm not the utmost authority on the Jewish culture. But, I think that may be a little out of place. If I can remember from Sunday school, Jews aren't the biggest supporters of our Jesus. Now I remember the basics...Jesus was Jewish etc..
But, I don't remember the "Jews for Jesus" campaign.

I guess I understand the whole "political correctness" aspect of having all religions validated etc..I'm just not sure, putting a Jewish symbol into a scene depicting the celebration of the birth of "our" Jesus is correct for anyone. Now somebody will inevitably question why I put "our" Jesus. No I'm not trying to keep him all to myself. I'm not staking claim to the father, son or the holy ghost. Different religions, including Christianity and the Jewish culture have different ideas on the date and identity of the true Jesus Christ. That is the only reason I put "our". Because my background recognizes him as the Son of God, born approximately December 25. But I am not a Priest, Rabbi, or even a Wiccan Goddess therefore, not the best person to question regarding religious differences. To be completely honest, I could careless what another person believes. To each their own. As far as I know, I've never met God, let alone had a Q&A session with him (or her)to know who's right. All I will say about this, is if I'm wrong about him and/or Heaven, I don't get to go to a place that doesn't exist. If I'm right...then it sucks to be those who aren't! lol

But anyway back to my Merry Christmas blog. Christmas on an Army base, is like Christmas anywhere else. Just less men. When we got home, Santa had left presents here for the kids as well. So we attempted to gather around the webcam so daddy could see the kids open presents as it happened. We spent most of our time, saying "wait a minute, we lost daddy again", "don't open that yet", and "there goes the camera again". After about half an hour, I gave up and just typed descriptions. "She got an art set, she's excited. He got a ds game, he's happy. She got a book, she's pissed" etc...

As we finally get to the end of the year long deployment, the worst part is being so close to Christmas. Just a little bit earlier and he would have actually been here this time. You get so close, but still just out of reach. It would have been nice to have our family together without a computer separating us for Christmas. But I guess such is the life of an Army wife.