A Joseph Smith Christmas

[bobcat]

So did anyone else have a "Joseph Smith Christmas" like I did this year? Among the presents I got this year from various well-meaning family members was a Joseph Smith timeline/bookmark (like they used to have in Seminary) and the offer of an all-expenses trip with my entire extended family to Nauvoo next summer (which I have already declined). Everyone in my family got at least those same two things (both from my grandparents). My dad also got two books about Joseph Smith, including "Rough Stone". My brother Joey (so named because of his birthday is in the week before Christmas, like J. Smith's), got about a half-dozen JS related items. Plus there was the devotional in Vermont that my whole family talked about all week.

I thought the whole "themed Christmas" thing was hilarious. Did anyone else get that too?

[templenamesarah]

Thankfully, this year the Mo-themed gifts were kept to a minimum. My parents gave me a hand-stitched wall hanging that says "Love at Home." It's actually quite lovely and nicely framed. We got a DVD including "Mr Kruger's Christmas", and my RM sister gave my husband a calendar with a picture of Christ and some allegedly inspirational quotes on it. We also got some other non-mo gifts and spent a nice weekend just hanging out and enjoying each other's company, for the most part. My parents didn't even leave us on Sunday morning to attend the local ward sacrament meeting. :)

[Born Free]

So did anyone else have a "Joseph Smith Christmas" like I did this year? Among the presents I got this year from various well-meaning family members was a Joseph Smith timeline/bookmark (like they used to have in Seminary) and the offer of an all-expenses trip with my entire extended family to Nauvoo next summer (which I have already declined). Everyone in my family got at least those same two things (both from my grandparents). My dad also got two books about Joseph Smith, including "Rough Stone". My brother Joey (so named because of his birthday is in the week before Christmas, like J. Smith's), got about a half-dozen JS related items. Plus there was the devotional in Vermont that my whole family talked about all week.

I thought the whole "themed Christmas" thing was hilarious. Did anyone else get that too?

It never seems to penetrate these people, that what they are doing borders on, if not trips over into, idolatory.

Daryl

[Born Free]

I got my own copy of the DVD - Bad Santa (from Mrs Santa), with Billy Bob Thornton, amongst other things. I would not swap that for a fortune for any Jospeh Smithmas paraphenlia.

Daryl

[peter_mary]

The most interesting Mo-theme to this Smithmas was the fact that my wife has begun talking to some of her siblings about her departure, and word seems to be leaking to her parents. It's actually been a very healthy thing for the most part, because she's finding that her sibs seem quite capable of managing this relationship even with us out of the church. Her parents are so very conflict avoidant that it isn't likely that we'll EVER hear about it from them, but we operate from the mindset that people ask for the things they are prepared to hear. And until that time, we don't feel compelled to tell them. Subsequently, much of the pretending has been dropped, which was actually a nice little gift this year for me!

:)

[flotsam]

We got a DVD including "Mr Kruger's Christmas"

Bad news, TNS. Ever Mormon who gets the Ensign got that DVD in the December issue. Wait two weeks and they'll be overflowing into the aisles at Deseret Industries.

It looks like someone took advantage of your ignorance of Church magazines.

Speaking of Mr. Krueger, Jimmy Stewart is really creepy in that show.

[silverfox]

We managed to come away clean this year and the past few years from any Mo stuff.

This year my daughter in law and son spend Xmas eve and Xmas day with us. This is a first. They are not believers and haven't been for a looong time. But her parents are VERY TBM. They make everyone dress up as the nativity (all grown kids, adults with their own families) and EVERYTHING is church centered...reading scriptures for hours, speaking of church crap 24/7.

I was honored that she was found the courage to "break away" in spite of the guilt trips she was put on by her family and spend the holiday with us. Instead of her family realizing that they have NEVER spent a Xmas with us, they just wanted to throw her into a spiral of guilt. I am sure they think we are an evil influence. I wish they could have witnessed the fun and love we all shared.

They know how she feels but they insist she is just going through a phase. She is so frustrated. They also insist she should be getting pregnant. (I view them as vultures, wanting to zoom in on the baby, pressure church crap using the baby, etc - son and daughter in law recognize this as well) They don't plan on having kids for at least 8 more years.

We had a great time playing cards, games, bonding, talking about EACH OTHER and not Joe or the church, etc. The focus was on us as a family. It was awesome.

Sorry, I think I may have sidetracked the thread.

Answer for us - no. No Joe Smith crap. I did however almost buy TBM FIL one of those cheap gold statues of Moroni WalMart sells. heh heh

[templenamesarah]

Bad news, TNS. Ever Mormon who gets the Ensign got that DVD in the December issue. Wait two weeks and they'll be overflowing into the aisles at Deseret Industries.

It looks like someone took advantage of your ignorance of Church magazines.

Speaking of Mr. Krueger, Jimmy Stewart is really creepy in that show.

I know MKC is not Jimmy Stewart's finest acting job, but I still like this movie because it has happy associations for me. I remember watching it on TV one time as a kid with my sweet black lab cuddled up next to me, and munching on hot fresh chocolate-chip cookies. :)

Fortunately for me, I live nowhere near the Morridor, and have no access to DI. When I lived in Utah as a kid, one time my mom bought me a pair of bell-bottom jeans from DI. The jeans had a little butterfly embroidered on the back pocket, and I thought I was *hot stuff* wearing those stupid things! :)

[peter_mary]

When I lived in Utah as a kid, one time my mom bought me a pair of bell-bottom jeans from DI. The jeans had a little butterfly embroidered on the back pocket, and I thought I was *hot stuff* wearing those stupid things! :)
So that was YOU! Wow...

You WERE hot in those stupid things! You should get another pair...flairs are all the rage, and if your old ones have holes in the knees, so much the better! ;)

[lunaverse]

Fortunately for me, I live nowhere near the Morridor,

Morridor! LOLOLOL!!!!

BTW, there's a DI up here in Seattle, oddly enough.

Luna

[helemon]

From RfM:
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/merry_smithmas/detail?.dir=/89b5&.dnm=7a5f.jpg&.src=ph

[free thinker]

From RfM:
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/merry...a5f.jpg&.src=ph


Those JS cards are something man. Ole Joe preaching spiritual wifery probably. :rolleyes:

ft

[elder_nomo]

From RfM:
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/merry_smithmas/detail?.dir=/89b5&.dnm=7a5f.jpg&.src=ph
OMG Helemon - I want to believe that this is just a very good joke... but a little tiny part of me fears it's for real.
Can it be???

[helemon]

OMG Helemon - I want to believe that this is just a very good joke... but a little tiny part of me fears it's for real.
Can it be???

The person who posted it on RfM said it is for real. I can't see what the picture on the right side is of. Perhaps a statue of JS?

[elder_nomo]

The person who posted it on RfM said it is for real. I can't see what the picture on the right side is of. Perhaps a statue of JS?
Yes, it's JS. Maybe a painting? Could be a statue. Definitely arranged to be an equivalent to the JC image on the left.
The same 2 people, with faces blocked out, are standing in front of it.

I have to note that this is one of those "newer" images of JS -the square-jawed, studly hunk. :Puking

[helemon]

Yes, it's JS. Maybe a painting? Could be a statue. Definitely arranged to be an equivalent to the JC image on the left.
The same 2 people, with faces blocked out, are standing in front of it.

I have to note that this is one of those "newer" images of JS -the square-jawed, studly hunk. :Puking

Ah, I was trying to view it with Firefox. It works in Explorer. :duh

[templenamesarah]

So that was YOU! Wow...

You WERE hot in those stupid things! You should get another pair...flairs are all the rage, and if your old ones have holes in the knees, so much the better! ;)

Ewwwwww, I was only 9! Of course, it was Utah. And naturally, back in the mid-19th century, it was common, nay, even expected for men in their mid-30's to marry and bed young pre-pubescent girls, wasn't it? I think I read that on FAIR once...