It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…
We began our Christmas movie marathon yesterday with three great ones: Miracle on 34th St., The Grinch and It’s a Wonderful Life. We watched Elf a couple weeks ago but I’m sure it will play a few more times throughout the season. We seem to be starting early this year with just about everything. We did the majority of our Christmas shopping online on Black Friday. I like to get all the shopping and planning done early so that there is more time to relax and enjoy a peaceful season. The boys and I will be making our annual advent chain this afternoon as well as compiling a list of our favorite traditions and putting them on the calendar to ensure we don’t miss anything important to us.
Every year we work to be intentional, not to get sucked into the commercialism and to focus on what truly matters. Overall, I feel like we have created a good balance but there is much room for improvement. I love that my boys don’t make Christmas “wish lists” a mile long! They typically only mention 2 or 3 things they would like to have and their requests are quite reasonable. Both boys focus much more on what they want to get for each other and how to bless other family members.
One of our goals this season is to focus on God’s graciousness and His very apparent blessings in our lives. We have so much to be thankful for and are blessed beyond measure. What more could we want or need?
