Christmas Eves Past, Present and Future

My Christmas Eve posts of the past have been some of my favorites, starting with the very first one in 2009. You remember – the year the Obama’s decided they simply must continue their family tradition (est. 2008) of spending 2 weeks over Christmas at a luxury resort in Hawaii on somebody else’s (ours) dime. Raj did a short video of that trip that I think I’ve used every Christmas Eve hence so tradition demands I use it again. From Mele Kalek-Obama:

I, MOTUS, make several cameos in this short musical so watch for me!

Amazingly the opening sentence of that 2009 post is still mostly true:

Santa and his elves are hanging around D.C. just long enough this morning to vote on how much they’re going to charge for shipping and handling on this year’s free gifts.

Then there was the year that the seeds of the BLM movement were sown and it became clear that there was no winning the Left’s race war.

I can’t keep up with the ever shifting sands of racism and political correctness. One day Santa is okay, butt his sidekick, Black Pete is unacceptable. The next day it’s Santa who’s unacceptable: too white, too fat, too privileged:

In the twinkle of an eye, only black guys matter:

Some years we did mostly recipes and cute stuff to eat and drink:

instructions here

Or sometimes I focused on highly inedible cute stuff like these adorable Marshmallow Men that came with their own Christmas story.

Warning! Cute little men made of confections are NOT, repeat, NOT edible!!!!

I’ve tried to keep Christmas Eve as politics-free as possible, but that grew more difficult as the country’s deep divide grew ever deeper and people began to dread even seeing certain relatives over the holidays:

I see the country is as divided over Hallmark movies as it is over politics. It’s like asking people whether your  eggnog/Tom and Jerry should be dusted with nutmeg or cinnamon.

Of course your Dem and Never-Trumper relatives think that everything, including Christmas, is about President Trump. Remember Newsweek’s top Christmas week story back in 2017?  How Trump and the Nazis Stole Christmas To Promote White Nationalism. Things have only grown worse since then so let’s hope families either abstain from discussing politics or simply refuse to engage in bait-setting scenarios with warring members of their tribe. A truce for Mom’s sake would be nice.

Alas, COVID has pretty much solved that problem in most blue states for us. By more or less banning Christmas gatherings of more than 6 people it should be easy to avoid bumping elbows with the enemy camp this year. But do pay attention as that is how the left prefers to settle all grievances: strictures and mandates.

And that brings us to Christmas Eve Present doesn’t it? I know I shouldn’t do this, and I can’t actually bring myself to post any of the pictures, but here is the Daily Mail’s Christmas Eve Present to all of us. Open with extreme caution and have your eye bleach handy when doing so. Don’t say later I didn’t warn you.

As for Christmas Eve Future  – well, who knows?  I say we all go to sleep tonight with hope in our hearts and dream a little dream. Maybe, just maybe there really is a Santa Claus.

And now I really must go sit in the corner and think about what I just did here.

Merry Christmas Eve to Janice the Elder, wherever you are!