It is much easier just to start as you mean to go along. ![]() Things get more costly, and life gets busier as one adds children to the family. And when children start remembering what last year was like there is a certain expectation (not ill-willed-we all have expectations) to look forward to. (And I have had eight year olds have just as much fun with a box too?:) The more gifts equals the more shopping and wrapping and planning and DOING (and the more stuff in your house to clutter it!). We all know a one year old will play with the box. ![]() We will be the thoughtful filter, the idea-shaper for how we want our Christmas season to look for our families. What we allow into our home, is what will influence those little ones in our home-from the gabs of toy magazines, and commercials vs. If we want to keep it simple and religious, then deciding ahead of time how we will go about "guarding our hearts and homes" is a necessity. ![]() (I sometimes I just wish I could tell my younger self these things.)Ĭhristmas is what we decide it will be and that means there is a need to guard our hearts and homes a little-relatives, the media, the neighbors, friends, stores, your church, etc, will all come into play as an influence so it is right and good to set out in our heads what we want Christmas to look like for our family. I know I have posted some of this before years ago in different essays but I wanted to set it out again.
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