Somebody send that wanna-be-dictator-Yoon to North Korea - he's obviously on the wrong side of the border!!
Can we cancel traditional Christmas? I really don't feel like putting up and taking down all the decorations, which are all really irrelevant to the actual celebration. What's a tree with baubles and tinsel got to do with anything? WHAT IS THE SIGNIFANCE? Oh, I know - to leave glitter and tinsels all over the place FOR ME TO CLEAN UP ON A DAILY BASIS. It's work. It's not fun. Don't preach to me about how we need to teach the kids not to expect something every time they come in the car with us but then in the same breath say that the kids expect Christmas to be all decorations and trees and fudging mess. Like, shut up, you hypocrite. I'm always in charge of clearing space in our teeny tiny compact house for this enormous and pointless 7 foot fake tree to go up and I'm in charge of supervising the kids to put it together and decorate it and I'm in charge of cleaning all the mess it makes for the next month.
So here's the thing.
I'M IN CHARGE.
If I don't want no tree, there will be no tree. If you want a tree, YOU DO IT AND DEAL WITH IT.
Christmas is supposed to be about family and time spent together. Decor is superficial and NOT what it's about. I'll spend more time cleaning and maintaining decor than I will spend quality time with my family. Nope. Lower all ye expectations.
My foot's been put down. It ain't budging.
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Don't use the lame ass excuse that it's for the kids, you don't remember ever having a Christmas without a tree, and that one day I'll look back on this and think I should have just done the tree thing. Actually. ONE DAY I'm going to look back at this and look at you and say "I'm so glad I no longer have to fuss and stress over a stupid fudging tree. Do you remember that time you said I'd regret not putting it up? Well, no regrets here to be had, see?"
Like. Why do men set these stupid expectations and not think about the impact it has? I'm so bloody depressed I'm surprised I've even made it this far and to put this on me when I really, really, really don't have the mental or emotional capacity to deal with it is UNBELIEVABLE. Thanks for putting me first, honey. As always my place is in the dirt stuck to the scum at the bottom of everything. I'm. So. DONE.
Parenting is hard.
They lie when they say it gets easier.
It doesn't. Throw some ADHD sprinkles, Autism glitter, smashed anxiety, puberty and mental health into a blender, drink that every day and tell me it goes down easy. It really doesn't. I want to chill because I'm low-key anxious about going into full time work next month.