For "enlightened progressives" DUmmies can sure be greedy and materialistic. But since DUmmies don't believe in God or Jesus I guess they'll never get what Christmas is about.
Yeah, Grandma's real careful about not using certain words, in this case "Christmas."
Grandma, who's only 50 years old, making her the young 'un of the cooking and baking forum, grew up in Ohio, in the midst of a large loving family of Italianate origin.
But for some reason, Grandma never got married until she was 38 years old.
I don't know this for sure, but I suspect Grandma and hippyhubby "met" via the internet or somesuch long-distance arrangement. And then she left her large loving Buckeye Mediterraneac family for somewhere in northeastern Oklahoma, from whence hippyhubby comes.
It appears hippyhubby rules the roost, and alas hippyhubby is an old grouch, a curmudgeon, a selfish skinflint tightwad, which can't make it pleasant for Grandma.
Hippyhubby, being a sour old grouch, apparently doesn't care for God, and Grandma, trying to appease him, appears to have adopted, at least superficially, his own negative attitude about God and religion.
This Christmas, Grandma and hippyhubby are spending the day listening to some "talking books" of some personality on National Public Radio.
No God, no cheer, no goodwill.
It's very sad.
It's kind of like the marriage of Aunt Bea from
Mayberry RFD and Alfred Packer.
edited to add last sentence; sorry for the inconvenience
