TOYING with Ideas....

We have been toying with ideas on how to make Christmas special for the kids yet not loose sight in the gift and overload of the holidays. Thus far the best idea I have found is for us to do 1 gift from Santa or 2 and their stocking and then 3 gifts from Mommy and daddy (each), being that Jesus recieved 3 gifts in the Stable when he was born!

Its sounds like a fun idea and it each year we get to go over again to teach the little ones the importance of Christmas, We didn't want to take the excitment away from them about Santa but tried to put it perspective! Plus we are wanting to instill the art of GIVING in our children we started with letting them pick pout others gifts and be a part of helping with there teacher gifts etc and we as a family choose child at church that we are buying for--we will do something FUN and then needed items. You dont realize how fortunate you are until you see the eyes of poverty and hunger looking straight at you....Thus is the season for GIVING and being grateful and that is just what we intend to do.