Of course Christmas time is one of our favorite times of the year! We enjoy the marshmallow roasting, woodburning fires, candy canes and Christmas tree pickings, (although we opted for our old reliable fake one this year). There's lots of Christmas shopping and envelope stuffing, package mailing and cookie baking. I can't wait to get started...
Last night Justin placed the star on the already bare bottomed Christmas tree. We are now down 4 or more beautiful bulbs that Alyssa took care of for us and the stockings are hung by the chimney with care and lists for Santa of impossible gifts in the minds of our little ones. Sugar plums? If it was only that easy! Hopes have dropped as we have declared a "no electronics Christmas". As we ran down the children's list, Steve declared, "what ever happened to tommy wants a ball?" and my declaring, " and Suzie wants a doll?!" Think we were being silly? Quite possibly, in a seriously incredulous way! We have hopes they will find that the packages they recieve will contain gifts that make them forget that they didn't recieve those electronic devices and rather encouraged interaction and relationship strengthening games and toys instead. As Christmas draws nearer, I have been opting to make my Christmas a little less stressful and focus more on those things that add the Peace and Joy we hear ever so much about this time of year. I have been extremely mindful of President Monson and Uchdorf's talks last Sunday in the Christmas devotional. Let's keep it simple, and full of meaning. So far, it's a lot better than last year's December. At least for me!
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I am looking forward to hearing about what they did get for Christmas and how it was received. I think your idea of no electronics is a good one. I think a dose of less technology would do the world a lot of good. Loved your Christmas card- beautiful and handmade as usual. Happies of New Years!
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