Well this is it Christmas season is here and we are all getting ready for the fun that comes with it. I have been watching the news thus far about the holidays and you know what is interesting is that we are not really talking about families getting together and trimming trees and just enjoying the feeling that comes with this time of the season.
I know this going to sound a bit off the beaten path or maybe not but I for some years have done things differently.
I don't buy gifts. No, I don't. Let me be clear, I don't stick a bunch of gifts under the tree to for effect. I put empty boxes under the tree wrapped in beautiful paper because it is fabulously gorgeous and we decorate the house with the sights and sounds of the holiday season. I mean we really get into it too. We bake cookies, we have the music going full blast on the holiday channels, we go to Christmas concerts and church events.
Then Christmas day comes and I get up early and fix a traditional breakfast of pancakes and eggs and bacon and juice and milk.
I want you all to know that the time that my children and I spend together is what is the gift. Ok ok so the day AFTER after Christmas we go shopping together and hang out and have fun and we have a treat of our favorite chinese restaurant.
Do I keep my children from giving each other gifts? No, not all because they do and they are always intent on giving Mother something each year and I accept. But what I don't want are children that are hell bent on the money aspect of Christmas. How much was spent on this or that.
I want my kids to know what I knew growing up. That in the end when the gifts are gone, thrown away and no longer in style that they will have those thoughts and those memories of what we shared when they are adults and they can give that to thier kids and so on.
So yes we give gifts. We just give each other.
