Joy to the World Jews and Christians alike

Hurrah! It's Christmas Eve! As happy as I am that tomorrow will be filled with mountains of presents and tons of "thank you"s' and "You shouldn't have"s', as well as my mother wanting to know where all the receipts to her presents are, I can't help feeling the holiday spirit! I kind of feel bad for all the jewish people of the world...they don't get off for Chanukah, whereas us christians, wanna-be christians, and people who just believe in the commercialism of corporate America get Christmas commercials, the wonderful and spunky Peanuts special, even the cheesy Nickolodean specials about trees and presents and feeling 'the holiday spirit'. All jewish people get is a punchline in a Christmas episode.....or the Rugrats special. Every day they come to school with their new clothes, and talking about their lovely presents. I sometimes think it would be fun to be a jew, with their menorahs (though, actually, I made my mother buy a menorah at a bookstore when I was at the tender age of 8), and the lavish bat/bar-mitzahs I got to attend as a middle schooler. Oh well, when it comes down to it, I love Christmas. Simple as that. Now...what about muslims? But I'm guessing that is a completely different story. More posts soon, now off to bake cookies and look in splendor at our tree. Adios!