The Most Wonderful Time of Year

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

By Jamie Kaiser

With lots of hard work behind us and only more on the way, Christmas break at Bishop Ireton has many people ready to reset, relax their minds, and enjoy their families and their traditions. With Covid-19 impacting a lot of Christmas last year, 2021 should have been a great year to pick up on some holiday traditions and quality family time. In the Catholic Church, Christmas is one of if not the most important holidays of the year and the birth of our Lord Jesus is celebrated in numerous ways. As the focal point of the holiday season approach, students at Bishop Ireton were nothing short of excited to take a brain break and reset on the importance of quality family time during the season. I went around and asked some Bishop Ireton students what they enjoy doing during the holidays, what traditions they have, games they play, movies they watch and more. I caught up with junior Kate Clark and asked what she planned on doing for break and if her family had any traditions. She replied, “ I don’t have too many family traditions for Christmas, but my family and I always attend Christmas Mass. This year we plan on taking a trip to Las Vegas and visiting California so we can enjoy our break in some nice weather.” I later talked to Junior Reid Burke about what makes the holiday season so special to them and why it’s so enjoyable. “ I really love the holiday season because it gives me great memories from when I was a kid. It brings me back to thinking about how the simple things in life make me happy. I especially like the holidays now because I can get to spend quality family time and my brother gets to come home from college and it’s nice to see him after not seeing him for a while.” To conclude our interviews, I asked Freshman Steven Ntambwe what makes break so relaxing to him and if school work is still in mind during the break. “Break is really relaxing because I don’t have any school work to worry about, and I usually feel like there’s a lot of weight off my shoulders so it is way easy to be relaxed during break; to be honest school work is the last thing on my mind during break especially since we have finals (before Christmas Break) once those are over i’m just going to enjoy the time off.”

With midterms ending and the second quarter coming to a close soon, many people have been under stress, but there is nothing better than having the wonderful holiday season to come back to the important enjoyable things in life and take advantage of the time we have.