Well, this is Christmas week, so I want to wish everyone who commemorates the birth of the Christ Child a very Merry Christmas. I hope that each of you has a wonderful and blessed holiday, with health and happiness for you and your families.

As adults, most of us probably feel that one Christmas has barely passed until another one is upon us. As we get older, time seems to fly! But when we were youngsters, that wasn’t the case. Hence, this old saying was born.

For children who look forward to the time of receiving gifts from Santa, Christmas is the slowest time of the year coming around again. It is even suggested in a novel that the saying was cited in 1775. It was certainly in use by children in 1921, when it showed up in a list of similes in "Suggestions to Instructors on a Course in Citizenship and Language" published by the Chicago Board of Education on page 14:

“Slow as Christmas. (ASK a child how slow)”

Well, the kids have finally gotten their long-awaited wish, and hopefully, are receiving what they wished for.

As for me, my desire this Christmas is for peace on earth and good will toward men.

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