The meaning of Christmas.....

I get very excited when Thanksgiving comes because it is usually met with a visit with family and then I also get to set up ALL the Christmas decorations. I find that I don't seem to get into the Christmas spirit until the tree is up and there is stuff everywhere. The stores start Christmas way too early. I went to find Jack's Halloween costume this year next to a tree skirt. No kidding! I was so aggravated!
Poor Thanksgiving gets NO love at all. I guess most people dont decorate or give gifts for Thanksgiving so retail skips right over that.
I do love getting Christmas cards and letters to see how everyone has changed over the year and the fun that everyone has had. But that too sometimes gets to be a contest in I did way more than you did this year. I don't write a Christmas letter
for a couple reasons. The first is I don't feel that I am good at getting thoughts
from my brain onto paper and then also I feel that my life (although I do love it)
can be a bit BORING. We do send a picture card with a little message.
With all that is going on in the world I find that the true meaning of Christmas has
been lost in telling our own message through this is what I did and look what I bought..... Let's remember that we all have so many things to be thankful for and take a little time to pray and do a good deed for those who don't have as much to be thankful for.