Make it memorable!

Christmas is a season we all look forward to. It is the most celebrated season all over the world. It is a season where people share love and show love to each other. It is a season of get together. People who have been away for donkey months return home to their loved ones to share in the joy of the season. It is one of man's greatest reunion period and then it doesn't last for ever because every thing takes just two days to mark but for sure it takes more than two days to celebrate.


People all over the world have various ways of celebrating the season, some go for picknicks, some to watch movies, some take vacations and some visit resort centers and tourist locations. Now, your choice of how to celebrate it depends on you and those that you love. One unique thing about Christmas is that you never celebrate it alone. You eithet see others around you celebrating it or you join your family to.


In the 4^th century CE, Christianity imported the Saturnalia festival hoping to take the pagan masses in with it. Christian leaders succeeded in converting to Christianity large numbers of pagans by promising them that they could continue to celebrate the Saturnalia as Christians.The problem was that there was nothing intrinsically Christian about Saturnalia. To remedy this, these Christian leaders named Saturnalia's concluding day, December 25th, to be Jesus' birthday. Christians had little success, however, refining the practices of Saturnalia. As Stephen Nissenbaum, professor history at the University of Massachussetts, Amherst, writes, "In return for ensuring massive observance of the anniversary of the Savior's birth by assigning it to this resonant date, the Church for its part tacitly agreed to allow the holiday to be celebrated more or less the way it had always been." The earliest Christmas holidays were celebrated by drinking, sexual indulgence, singing naked in the streets (a precursor of modern caroling), etc.

Enough of how Christmas started. Wouldn't it be lovely to know what you should do to make it memorable? if it takes so much time and money to prepare for Chiristmas, wouldn't be wise to make it a season to remember? I think we should. I thinkk where we spend our Christmas holiday, what we drink, who we spend it with, what we buy and where we visit should be important memories we should care about. This blog will do just that.

Meanwhile, welcome on board!