The tree is up, and decorations are all coming together. This year I want to get ahead of the game so that we as a family can truly enjoy the holidays. I want to craft until our fingers hurt and bake until our tummies ache, I want to enjoy eggnog and hot chocolate, read Christmas stories and watch Christmas movies, I want to start new traditions and continue old ones. As I've said before I concider myself a very lucky person and am so thankful each and every day for all I've been given in life, so this holiday season I plan to make the absolute best of it all.
Our daughter is now old enough to help me creatively craft some gifts, so that's what I plan to do. What ever happened to the idea of a homemade gift being the best?! Now-a-days if you make something yourself you're scoffed at or considered cheap...and that is a world I don't want my daughter to grow up in. It doesn't need to be all about that ipad, ipod, laptop or big screen tv that the 6-12 year olds in this world are receiving, we're living in a consumers world, and sometimes it just gets to be too much!
We are a one income family, and keeping up with the trends of the world is most of the time just not an option, and it worries me a lot sometimes. I want to provide, but it seems so crazy to buy into the world we live in.
The holidays are about giving, and family, and togetherness and I am going to make sure my daughter knows this <3
Well said! Embrace those precious moments....they pass by way too quickly! Can't wait to see your decorating and baking. Have a great weekend.
ReplyDeleteBlessings,
Jill