The Season for Humiliation
I really love Christmas. Almost everyone is in a good mood. Merging into traffic is actually possible. People say excuse me when they bump into you. Your kids are nice (okay, so what if their intentions are questionable. I'll take whatever I can get.) And all the decorations, Christmas carols and other signs of the season are so heartwarming. I think that's the reason we're so willing to stoop to new levels of humiliation, especially when it comes to our apparel. We wear things--out in public no less--that we otherwise wouldn't be caught dead in. Bulky sweaters with Rudolph emblazoned across the front, blinking red nose and all, Santa hats, headbands with reindeer horns or snowflakes, red and green socks with little jingle bells on them, and so on. I have a pair of Christmas tree earrings, myself. That'a about as humiliating as I'm willing to go, since I get a pretty generous serving of humility from just being a mom.