Thanks for this teaching. The Bible clearly tells us no Christmas Trees: "This is what the Lord says: “Do not learn the way of the nations, And do not be terrified by the signs of the heavens, Although the nations are terrified by them; For the customs of the peoples are futile; For it is wood cut from the forest, The work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool. They decorate the idol with silver and gold; They fasten it with nails and hammers. So that it will not totter." - Jeremiah 10:2-4 NASB

To me, i was placing gifts under the tree “sacrificing my bills” for the smiles of my children for one day… and afterwards struggling to pay bills. I didn’t celebrate this year. And i hope to no longer celebrate. It’s lonely, especially when everyone around you celebrating and I’m not. To have to show my children and help them unlearn the reason of Christmas, was very hard this year. I hope for it to become easier as the years go on.

@ceecee4552

Жыл бұрын

You'd be surprised how many of us are not celebrating this holiday or any other...God said.Thou shalt have no other God's before me.

Why I don’t care for that holiday. Everyone around me does and that makes me feel alone but I know that I’m right on that one. People conform and never question anything.

@ApostleMichellePeterson

2 жыл бұрын

Amen, you are never alone ❤️ Tiffani, Apostle Michelle's Ministry Team

@TheToyOdyssey

2 жыл бұрын

@@ApostleMichellePeterson God bless.🙏🏻

@chrisnalina1755

2 жыл бұрын

@@ApostleMichellePeterson What about Easter?

I totally understand where you're coming from Apostle. I don't celebrate it anymore either. My kids get gifts throughout the year. Much love and blessings everytime! 🙏🏽🥰🤗💕

@ApostleMichellePeterson

2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful idea. 😊

@sisizzythomas

2 жыл бұрын

@@ApostleMichellePeterson thank you! God bless you and keep up the excellent job for Christ! Much love and blessings everytime! 🙏🏽🥰🤗💕

I don't celebrate christmas and it's nothing wrong with telling your children the truth about that day and teaching them all about the Birth of Jesus Christ.

@ApostleMichellePeterson

2 жыл бұрын

Amen 😊😊❤❤

@shaineesmith

Жыл бұрын

Amen

I don't Celebrate Christmas anymore too. I really like your video. Christmas is a pagan holiday, it's the winter solstice. Very interesting. Thank you so much. Take care.

It's hard when you live in a home that's not yours and you are around all that stuff.I have to tell friends I don't celebrate .

@ApostleMichellePeterson

Жыл бұрын

I totally understand how hard that can be. Bless you. 😊❤️

I never brought our kids up with it…they never understood why even though we explained it. They are grown and are doing their own thing.

I appreciate finding this video, because just today my mother practically argued me down when I said I wasn't buying gifts for anyone or celebrating Christmas. I told her this last year once finding out the truth and she told me I wasn't raised that way and what did my 23 year old son say when I told him I wasn't getting him a gift this year. She was shocked when I told her he was fine with it. I even told her Jesus wasn't born on December 25th and it's a pagan holiday and she told me every reason why we should celebrate Christmas, bottom line is she walked away with an attitude and still didn't want to see it any other way. 🙄🤦🏽‍♀️

It's my parents and i's first year not celebrating Christmas/Thanksgiving/Easter/Halloween. It definitely is crazy how the majority of the rest of the world thinks that I am now crazy for not celebrating. I know in my heart that it is the right thing to not celebrate, and I definitely won't ever give in to society's standards to celebrate ever again after learning the truth of it all. The thing that I find to be funny that I worry about the most is that now, with my new beliefs, it will be harder to date when in reality I have to remind myself that God will guide me to the right man that will love and accept me for who I am and what my beliefs are.

I appreciate this message and how you broke it down for understanding.

@ApostleMichellePeterson

6 ай бұрын

Bless you 😊❤

My parents are Jehovah's Witness and Christian and growing up, i was forced to celebrate Christmas. I never really liked the holidays and prefer the comfort and peace at home. Heck im even down to hang out with my friends instead. It's always this time of the year when i feel really uncomfortable and Christmas music irritates me. I always get crappy, second hand gifts while my cousins always had something nicer. Then again, if i want something, I'll buy it myself.

Good for you Michelle I don't celebrate none of these holidays because they all have some evil background about it so many people have no clue what these holidays are truly about they just do it because everyone else is doing it and it's a tradition

Man I was praying about this in the morning 💜✝️

" Kudos " .... Great Woman Of God For Sharing This Biblical Warning Enlightenment , Knowledge and Wisdom !

Thank you Apostle for the Enlightenment of this Holiday, this was very informative. Blessings to you and your family.,

@ApostleMichellePeterson

2 жыл бұрын

Bless you too. 😊😊❤❤❤

Thou shall not lie. We been lied too for centuries

@ApostleMichellePeterson

6 ай бұрын

It's sad to think about how we have been deceived. We are so blessed to have a forgiving God. 😊❤❤

Thanks Apostle Michelle! This is so liberating! Thanks for sharing! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰.

@ApostleMichellePeterson

2 жыл бұрын

Bless you Makeda :)

Thank you for sharing this! you gave me confirmation.

You are so right!

@ApostleMichellePeterson

Жыл бұрын

Bless you. 😊❤️

The Christmas Tree is a biblical symbol of a Phallic symbol, Apostle Peterson

I have heard of Hanukkah but never really understood it or what it was so I'm going to do some research on it because I remember last year I was interested in it but then I forgot about it

@ApostleMichellePeterson

2 жыл бұрын

Amen Michelle. 😊😊❤

What's weird is I actually had a witch neighbor tell me her family doesn't celebrate Christmas because it has Christ in it. So I played Oh Holy Night full blast to lift up the Name Above All Names, Jesus.🥰

Thank you so much for sharing!!!!!!

@ApostleMichellePeterson

Ай бұрын

You're very welcome. God bless you. ~ Floydise, Ministry Team

I don't celebrate Christmas people says I'm trying be super deep or religious lol oh well.

Do yall celebrate your birthdays? So what day do yall celebrate Jesus Birthday? Ok dont do it in Dec so what day do yall celebrate his birthday like you celebrate yours and your children's birthdays?

I used to celebrate Christmas growing up and used to be my fav holiday. Now my fav holiday and the only holiday I like is New Years but that would be a whole different comment. For the past few years I would get yelled at and told I would ruin Christmas. When I was under 18 years old I spent half of my Christmas Day with a different family for the first time bc my own was depressing to be around. I don’t hate that family but they aren’t positive either and no one is positive around the holidays. It’s obv how stressful the holidays are. The mall is packed, more crime, traffic, arguing, etc. the holidays put me in a bad mood and I’m impressed people are the happiest at this specific time of the year. I don’t not celebrate it for religious reasons. I am atheist but I don’t not celebrate Christmas because I’m atheist/

I stopped with the Christmas trees many years ago and I am so glad to see God revealing His Truth to more and more of His people. However, one thing that you said really shocked me and I don't know if I believe you and that's the fact that you said you were a "grandmother"???!!! WHAT???! Nope, no way, impossible.

@ApostleMichellePeterson

Жыл бұрын

Lol.. Yes, I'm a grandma. 😁😁

You're sooo beautiful! And thank you 🙂

I love the idea of one week of celebrating Jesus! I believe if we plan it correctly, it would really make a statement! In addition, it would make a lot of kids curious and may want to follow!

@ApostleMichellePeterson

2 жыл бұрын

Amen, it does sound like something that would draw people. 😊 Everyone loves gifts. 😊❤

@Looopita

Жыл бұрын

I like the idea too. I found out the history and truth behind Christmas last year and It was so disappointing. I was big into Christmas and would always go do all the Christmas events and go see the lights, deck the halls etc but last year I was so off put I couldn’t and still can’t . I give my family gifts still bc if I didn’t they would get upset but I really think focusing more on Jesus at least for a week with prayer and fasting and doing something nice for someone else would be a lot better.

My family and I started celebrating Christmas when I was 21yrs old. My parents are missionaries who always traveled to Mexico to clothe and feed the children in poverty and they were always went with them of course. We as in my brothers and I. We never got any gifts or any fancy dinners because the money went for the children cuz of clothes, shoes, toys, school supplies, personal hygiene stuff such as soaps, shampoo, sponges, make up, perfumes and for my parents home in Mexico. once we were all in college Christmas and all of these holidays were just like any other day but without our parents. So Christmas were spend alone at home at the age of 18-21. Cuz first final semester exams, work and well stay at home during Christmas. Usually it was my older brother and I watching movies with some pizza and thanking God that no more final exams for now lol later on things got really bad when it came to traveling due to the cartels and they would always stop my parents. They got the gun pointed at them before by these cartels. They face life and death many many times. My parents prepared us every time they traveled on what to do if they don’t ever make it back due to the cartels and violence and let’s not forget the amount of witchcraft that these people do in some of these places cuz most of them depend on witchcraft. Thank God that he always brought my parents back home safely. That’s when they realized we need to start spending time together during the holidays. Specially cuz we were now separating and going our own ways such as cuz of work and college and growing up. My parents business and then there missionary work. We obviously don’t believe in Santa Claus or in the Easter bunny, Halloween and don’t get me started when it comes to thanksgiving cuz we all know the truth but for us its the fact that we are spending time together and that everyone is alive. Specially after so many crazy times spend at Mexico since I was little. I sure don’t miss taking cold showers during freezing icy days 🥶🥶 ❄️❄️❄️so more like I celebrate that during Christmas hahaha and it’s a gift from God that he allows my parents and my brothers and I to survive a lot of things and now enjoy the fruits of what we all did and continue to do. We do gift each other gifts because why shouldn’t we finally enjoy gifts after many many many years of not even buying stuff due to having to save money for clothing and feeding the children in poverty and money to travel over there was all from my parents hard work. They never asked for donations or anything. They worked. So Christmas for us is now chilling at home with some good food and spending time. Same goes with all of the other holidays.

I feel you nice content!!

@ApostleMichellePeterson

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Bless you.

I always buy gifts throughout the year for my grandchildren & say Jesus blesses me so you are blessed because Jesus lives in me. 🙏🏻💙

I don’t like Holidays it’s too stressful everyone makes it a big deal

I have a question. What is your opinion on if your famiky invites you to a xmas dinner and they have an xmas tree up and they buy you and your kids gifts and they pass gifts out to you there???? Do you go to the dinner etc???

This is so true, Jeremiah 10 King James Version 10 Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: 2 Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. 3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. 4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

Shalom Aleichem from West Virginia near Pittsburgh 🙏

@ApostleMichellePeterson

Жыл бұрын

Bless you 😊

I love that you addressed this, however; there is a Whole Christmas spirit that has nothing to do with Yahusha/Jesus. It goes so much deeper. He wasn't even born in the Winter.

I got rid of my christmas tree last year thinking I could buy another. So, when christmas come I couldn't buy one. I had actually heard that about the christmas tree before but kind d of forgot about it. So, I'm thankful you are talking about it because I'm not putting one in my house. Last year my kids didn't even care about the tree anyways. I just gave them their gifts and they was happy. I'm going g to teach them about the christmas tree and why we will never have one again.

@ApostleMichellePeterson

2 жыл бұрын

Amen, we only care about the gifts. That's so true. 😊😊❤❤

Yes speaking truth and December 25 is nimrod birthday this is what they Lord Jesus showed me as well

It's way too commercialized, I agree

This is an eye opener! I still will celebrate the traditional Christmas, but I never told my kids that some fat white man gifted them. I always tell them me and their father bought those gifts.

It's makes me want to scream every year when people ask me if I'm done with all my Christmas shopping and wrapping gifts and cooking Christmas dinner. I'm seriously considering having a tshirt printed to wear during this holiday that said: If YOU CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS DON'T EVEN ASK ME WHAT MY CHRISTMAS PLANS ARE!

@elainecruz8100

Жыл бұрын

Yes Love it , If you celebrate Christmas.... T-shirt Idea.

I am soooo glad God delivery me from all this BONDAGE!!! I am soooo free in Christ!!! I agree with you totally about the tree! They use to have just one Christmas tree, now people have multiple trees in their houses! A tree in every room! And the Church is really bad with it now!!! I know a church that is selling decorative trees in the church and say they are doing it for a fund raising for their school!!! These trees are $200 and up!! It is sooo sad

Wow. Let's speak up!

"For indeed one judges a day to be above another day, but one judges every day alike. Let each be fully assured in the own mind. 6The one regarding the day, regards it to the Lord;a the one eating, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and the one not eating, does not eat to the Lord and gives thanks to God. " Romans 14:5-6

Jesus birthday being on December 25 is a lie too.

@ApostleMichellePeterson

Жыл бұрын

Amen 😊

This video was good and informative. I learned something new and I'm going to check out your other video on Christmas. The holiday stopped sitting well with me over 10 years ago. Praise God for your vision but I'm curious how come God doesn't show other men and women of God what's the true meaning behind Christmas like he did with you?

@ApostleMichellePeterson

2 жыл бұрын

So many people know about it, many of them say different names of demonic gods.

Exodus 32 and regaled again in Deuteronomy 9

So many Christians argue with you about it. Even how the Star arrived on Dec 25th

I miss Friday nights with you ladies !

@ApostleMichellePeterson

2 жыл бұрын

We plan to be live this Friday with a guest. 😊

@christarenee1273

2 жыл бұрын

@@ApostleMichellePeterson Yay ❤️

Painful to give it up but less painful knowing this. Was it Odin?

@ApostleMichellePeterson

Жыл бұрын

Hanukkah is a good alternative. The children can still receive gifts.

She is so beautiful 😍 and she is smart/educated omg thanks for the knowledge n keep changing people perspective one soul at a time ⏲

@ApostleMichellePeterson

2 жыл бұрын

😊😊😊

Amen Apostle🙌❤

Christopher the Christmas tree is a cartoon.

@ApostleMichellePeterson

6 ай бұрын

Wow!!!

Also, Christ wasn’t born in December.

I love hearing from you again. How do we tell our Apostles at our churches becouse the tree is even in the church also.

@ApostleMichellePeterson

2 жыл бұрын

Oh wow. I'm not sure if he will receive it but you can bind demonic spirits in the church when you're there.

Hi Apostle Michelle Peterson, I see you ha e a woman only session? Do you have any male sessions... I have what appears to me to be some kind of fog over my mind... I think its spiritual warfare. It happened a few days ago. I've never felt it before. But anyway, when can I set up a session with you, lol Men need help to, will you be opening a timeslot for men?

@ApostleMichellePeterson

2 жыл бұрын

lol... Right now, I'm just doing sessions with women. I have a video about getting removed from the demonic realm. If you can find that video, that will cover your issue. Get focused on the Lord (like you're worshiping Him) and then ask Him to remove your mind from the demonic realm, in Jesus name.

@jayque3033

2 жыл бұрын

@@ApostleMichellePeterson okay Thanks. I will try that! I actually did get deliverance from fear and then I sinned a little while after and did feel like brain fogg mentally every morning and haven't had dreams in a month or so. Im not sure if that is demonic...but God did deliver me from lust, anxiety and fear all within the past 6 months. I did feel like the foggy feeling was demonic spirits trying to separate me from God's voice. I am seeking to hear his voice and haven't felt confident that I heard his voice. I do hear voices and know when it is him when I am reading but in my everyday life it is hard to hear his voice clearly. Any advice?

What about people that buy planket of God in you sleep with it at night ,what will God say about that planket with his picture on it in you sleep with it

@ApostleMichellePeterson

2 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure what you mean. Are you referring to blankets that have a picture of Jesus' face on them? Tiffani, Apostle Michelle's Ministry Team

Amen sister ❤️ Thou shalt have no other god's before me. The Lord has commanded his holy days, we are to observe in their seasons. Leviticus 23(Feast of the Lord) Including the weekly Sabbath of the Lord. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in Six days the Lord made the heaven, and earth, the sea and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hollowed it. Exodus 20:8-11 Let Us HEAR the conclusion of the whole Matter, FEAR GOD and KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS For This is the Whole Duty of MAN For God shall bring every work into Judgement with every Secret Thing whether it be GOOD or whether it be EVIL. Ecceliastes 12:13-14 Be blessed,in Jesus name ❤️

What does got tell you about tattoos... ?

@ApostleMichellePeterson

2 жыл бұрын

It's wrong to mark our bodies.

@earthbarnes6694

2 жыл бұрын

God doesn't condone us marking our bodies, tattoos and piercings are not encouraged

I never owed a Christmas Tree.

That’s the one main thing that bothers me…the deception

Jeremiah 101Hear what the LORD says to you, O house of Israel.2This is what the LORD says: "Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by signs in the sky, though the nations are terrified by them.3For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut a tree out of the forest, and a craftsman shapes it with his chisel.

Like in jeremiah 10

Thus says the LORD: “Learn not the way of the nations, nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens because the nations are dismayed at them, for the customs of the peoples are vanity. A tree from the forest is cut down and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman. They decorate it with silver and gold; they fasten it with hammer and nails so that it cannot move. Their idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field, and they cannot speak; they have to be carried, for they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good.”

Is it really and truly JESUS'S birthday on Christmas?

@jacqbx

2 жыл бұрын

No

@ApostleMichellePeterson

2 жыл бұрын

No but Christians celebrate it during that time.

@earthbarnes6694

2 жыл бұрын

No that's not truly Jesus Christ Birthday, if im not mistaken they didn't have exact document of it.

@LightSeekers777

2 жыл бұрын

I started celebrating the Feasts God ordained in the Bible, because they all point to the Messiah. I now believe Jesus was born during the fall Feasts because God sent the angels to proclaim and announce His birth (Yom Teruah/Feast of Trumpets), "and the WORD became flesh and TABERNACLED AMONG us," is the Feast of Tabernacles/Sukkot. God ALREADY KNEW when His son would be born!

Why would Christians celebrate Christmas when you find out what it really is?

What happened to celebrating the holidays in the Bible

A tree represents the phallis...you're laying there worshipping a giant Phyllis symbol

One single day that will cost alot of people Alot.. It comes like every other morning and and goes just like that.. People left behind in dept that not even Jesus christ would want them to be inn.. Many gifts are to people who don't even need them.. My people will perish because of luck of knowledge.. FYI, the person who invented the name Santa wasn't a fool to know that it spells Satan with the n in the middle and not at the end.

It is all about the worship of your self, selfism. It has many names throughout the days, mercury and venus, the baal and the grove, it is a representation/reminder of the fall of man at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the spirit of selfism that is exercised when we eat the fruit there of. The lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh and the pride of life is the fruit. We every second chose to do the will of self or the will of the CREATOR. Only in HIM, through HIM are we able with the power HE gives us to die to self and be reborn in righteousness. Through HIM we are able to daily crucify the mind/will/emotions of the flesh.

I celebrate the birth of Christ. There’s nothing pagan about that. I also celebrate Jesus resurrection not Easter. Nothing pagan about that either. If you were born on Halloween would you not still celebrate your birthday? I don’t worship a Christmas 🎄 tree. I worship God. I’m very intentional about keeping Christ in Christmas. God has no problem with that. Let’s not be legalistic.

@ApostleMichellePeterson

7 ай бұрын

I understand what your saying but is there a scripture that say Jesus was born on Christmas day?

Jesus was born in the fall :)

I don't celebrate Christmas but, it is sad when I see other people like my friends and them celebrate Christmas. Plus, isn't it Christ's birthday?

Bible > NKJV > Jeremiah 10 ◄ Jeremiah 10 ► New King James Version Par ▾ Idols and the True God 1Hear the word which the Lord speaks to you, O house of Israel. 2Thus says the Lord: “Do not learn the way of the Gentiles; Do not be dismayed at the signs of heaven, For the Gentiles are dismayed at them. 3For the customs of the peoples are [a]futile; For one cuts a tree from the forest, The work of the hands of the workman, with the ax. 4They decorate it with silver and gold; They fasten it with nails and hammers So that it will not topple. 5They are upright, like a palm tree,

You have grandkids?!? Where! You look 19 at the oldest.

@zelzmwale2576

2 жыл бұрын

I was equally surprised 😲😲😲 she looks young and beautiful

@ApostleMichellePeterson

2 жыл бұрын

19...lol WOW, I never heard that young before....lol

@ApostleMichellePeterson

2 жыл бұрын

Awwww, thank you :)

Christmas is MASSIVELY over commercialised and for what...? I don't get it. For the past few months, we have been utterly bombarded with Black Friday TV advertisements, then 'Novembermas' adverts because it seems that November is another month for companies to milk as much money out of consumers as possible. I'm sorry but Christmas is nothing like it should be. How many people are there in this world that still religiously go to church like most of our Grandparents would have? Barely any, our local church isn't even open on Sundays anymore! They would have been open every Sunday, they would have Christmas services but now this is not the case. With the newer generations, traditions are dying off and are becoming a thing of the past. I was raised with the Santa Claus thing, always getting loads of presents and I can barely remember half of the things I got lmao. My parents, every year, have stressed themselves out trying to make everything organised, spending loads of money that they just do not have and I have heard this online too that this year, people are incredibly stressed because of the lack of money after the pandemic etc. This is the first year I think that people, at least in the UK, can actually freely visit family as we are not in a lockdown. We are in a 'Cost of Living Crisis' right now with people struggling financially etc. Yet we are force fed annoying advertisements on TV to get you to spend loads of money that you just do not have. I explained that I do not want to celebrate Christmas and I just get looked at like I'm weird for breaking traditions but most of my family are Christian and know the true meaning of Christmas yet they give into this silly gift giving fad and stress themselves out which is just unnecessary and it takes the fun out of the occasion. I have tried to break the tradition but as I still live at home, it's very hard to isolate myself and not be a part of this because it would just seem weird if I'm the only one acting like a Scrooge as it were lol I won't raise my kids with this nonsense. At the end of the day, it's a religious holiday and I don't get why so many non-Christians celebrate because Atheists and Christians too do not celebrate Eid or Hanukkah so I don't get why so many people celebrate Christmas even when they don't believe in Jesus etc. Madness. I'll pass thanks. We should be allowed to do our own thing without being treated like we're weirdos for not going along with such things. If people want to celebrate, go ahead because you're not hurting me but trying to force others to get involved when they're not interested is just annoying and whilst I'm happy to spend time with my family, I'm not happy to feel like I have the obligation of buying gifts and so on when just spending time with them and having a nice meal or a day out is more than enough 🤷🏻‍♀️ Just my opinion lol If you ask most kids what Christmas is nowadays, they'd probably say it's the time when Santa Claus gives gifts and they don't know the true meaning or probably who Jesus is at all 😅 When I say that there aren't many people attending church nowadays, I'm talking about in my area at least. Not sure what it's like in the USA but I'm in the UK and in all honesty, we go past our local churches so often and they are always closed, rarely open for a wedding and so many people aren't getting married now either. Some churches have been demolished too around here and replaced with big old sky rise apartments 😅

Why believe in any ancient traditions as the truth of everything at all? Cant people just be nice and giving to each other and nature? Without crazy traditions, lies, ignorance, worship, or hurting each other physically or mentally over it? Its not that hard to do.

I HATE CHRISTMAS..... SAMONA

I do not like the song o Xmas tree. That song there should be enough to show idols are being worshipped

@ApostleMichellePeterson

Жыл бұрын

Amen. So true.

Santa is lame

@ApostleMichellePeterson

6 ай бұрын

Lol

I celebrate the birth of Jesus. When I got older I was wondering why we were celebrating a fat white dude that has nothing to do with the birth of Jesus! Christmas comes from Christ. It's to celebrate his son! Easter is another Holiday that is the celebration of Jesus dying on the cross for EVERYONE sin! Not a rabbit or an egg. Satan is the one lying about the birth and death of Jesus Christ! Neither one of those holidays are representing Christ the right way. I will always celebrate Christmas and Easter. Just not the way I was when I was a child!