I always think it is cheesy when people announce (over and over again) how many days are left until Christmas. However, this year with time on fast forward (first holiday season with a new baby) I find myself wanting to know how many days are left. How many weekends do I have left to shop, wrap, ship, etc…

Which leads me to: My husband and I got into a long discussion the other day about how Christmas has become so much about the presents and less to do with Christ, family, peace, etc. This year I am really trying hard to keep the real meaning of Christmas present in my mind. It is so important to me that my daughter grows up thinking of Christmas as more than a day to score some loot!

For those of you who don’t celebrate Christmas, I hope you will find peace, comfort and joy in this season.

I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.  ~Charles Dickens

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