Humbug In Fairylights

The Christmas lights in my classroom sum up how I’m feeling about Christmas time this year.Bright, colour-changing lights spell out the words Bah Humbug, strung across the front of my classroom. I’ve used the lights for years: students laugh indulgently at the Dickensian reference and every year, someone asks me: “But Miss, do you really not like Christmas?”Like all the best things: it’s complicated.Of course I like Christmas, but there’s an element of the fam