Making the Christmas effort

I don’t know what it is, this “effort” thingy, but I find that making a Christmas “effort” is getting harder to do.

Yes, all the ingredients are there:-

• The Christmas tree decorated and lit
• The presents after thinking so hard to suprise family with ‘must-haves’and ‘not gots’
• Christmas card obligatiry writing and posting around the estate where I live to folk I generally see but apart from occasional “hi” don’t really chat to or know of but it’s always a nice thing to do!
• And the food to buy, keep and eat after family arrivals and departures

Maybe as I am getting that bit older and reflect on the true meaning of Christmas yet really know Christmas is for the children and families, maybe I’m on my own thinking this but all this ‘effort’ put in is just faff! And I’m not Anti (or Uncle!) Christmas in my saying this, more just as I see it when looking back over the years.