(Intergenerationally re/discovering Chip an’ Dale cartoons at Christmas)
Christmas is for kids, but for adults it is a time to slow down, maybe even think and reflect. (I made my 2 New Year’s resolutions back in a December blog entry.)
It is also a time for working adults to recharge and refocus on spouses, family and home–what gives a renewed raison d’etre and motivation for whatever work hassles and abuses. Context big-time.
For many adults, especially older ones, it gives them a chance to reconnect with extended family and to touch base in a more meaningful way at a special time of year. Our extended family basically meets once a year at this time though we all live within the Edmonton-Morinville areas.
For any adults who have kids, it is also significantly a time to get together and be with any grandchildren. Through contacts with them, grandparents get to re-realize the truth of the first sentence of this entry. Christmas is largely for and about kids, first and foremost. After all, a Babe started the Christmas tradition.