Christmas

The chips hit the table and then the hot sauce. Some Mexican restaurants will default to the red sauce and others will give you a choice. Enchiladas are being offered with red or green sauce more frequently.. What if you want both? You call it "Christmas."

Christmas has become a hassle. For me this is year, it's "Festivus for the rest of us!"

We are so close to Christmas and Christmas is a day of love and giving and spending time with your family and friends. Why not do something amazing this year before Christmas. In fact, you can give a priceless gift, the gift of life. By giving that gift you can put something in your stocking.

There is a lot of togetherness this time of year. There is also a lot of stress. You want to make sure that your relationship does not become a casualty.

I look forward to Christmas for the same reasons you do. See the family, celebrate traditions, and of course, eat the goodies. I've been on the panhandle air waves, a long time and that comes with delicious consequences.

Let's face it Christmas is about food. I know, I know, Christmas is about family and friends, giving and the birth of Jesus, but c'mon, it's about food. We eat a ton of food during this time of year and 1/2 a ton of candy, so it's no surprise that Texas has a popular candy.

We actually started this years ago. Faith was pretty young. It started when we would go to Midnight Mass, before it was moved to an earlier service.

It is the thought that counts.....right? It's that time of the year you have to think that. But what if that thought was you need to exercise?

Until recently, I was under the impression that suicides spike around Christmas time. It's a very emotional time for a lot of people who miss family, spend Christmas alone, or just don't feel up to being jolly.

It happens A LOT. You see those kids that are thrilled about seeing Santa Clause. It took a long time for me to get those kind of kid with Santa pictures.

We had to postpone our company Christmas party, due to the approaching winter storm. It turns out to be a blessing as a list of Secret Santa gifts, people actually want, has turned up. Looks like I might change mine.

I raised my daughter here in Amarillo, as a single mom, since the time she was two years old. I loved it all! Well most of it.