Egg'd out

I'm all egg'd out. So glad Easter is done for another 11 months (yes, Easter comes early next year for the sole purpose of torturing parents everywhere).

Why is it we feel so compelled to do all this stuff for the holidays - whatever holiday that might be? For me it's because I don't want my kids to feel left out. I love to see their happy faces when they get something they really want.

On the other hand is that not really doing them any service? Just allowing them to receive regardless of their year long behavior or issues? Am I just helping to purpetuate the materialistic nature of these holidays?

Now I understand the Christian nature of some of the holidays as I myself am Christian. But that doesn't mean I have to give in to the commercialization but I do anyway.

I wonder if I didn't have kids would I do the same? Impossible to say. I wonder how my children will handle these holidays as they age and potentially have families of their own. Am I part of the problem or part of the way my children become "normalized" into society at large?

I am unwilling to test, to change, to upset my children's delicate balance. So onward we go headlong to the next holiday. I just hope it brings smiles.