So now that Christmas is only days away I am really beginning to feel a jolt in the ole' spirit! As kids Christmas was so big and awesome and exciting. But the older I got it was really more about hanging out with the family and I didn't really get into much of it. Now that Mason is here I want to do everything! I want his Christmas memories of being a kid to be as awesome as mine are about how ours were as kids. Starting the day after Thanksgiving our house was turned into a winter wonderland! I am not exaggerating when I say Christmas threw up all over the house. PK had every inch of the house covered in something Christmas. On the tree all of our ornaments were in different sections and I would love going and looking at my section of the tree every year! There is the missile TOAD that hangs in the entry to the kitchen, the Wise men that my great Nana hand painted and many other staple Christmas decorations I looked forward to seeing every year. I will have to work up to the amount of decorations that she has but I want Mason to have that too. It just puts you in a good mood every time you look at it! It has changed a little since then, not the amount, but locations and the tree is a little smaller. Although I think there are more ornaments on it??
In addition to all of this something else has been stirring in my heart in regard to Christmas. Really trying to teach Mason the real reason for the season. We are not celebrating a jolly old fat man. We celebrate the birth of our savior!! I want to teach him about the real St. Nicholas and how he was a wealthy Saint that had lots of money and gave it away. That the Santa Claus we know today is the evolution of this Saint. I want to use Christmas to teach Mason of what baby Jesus' birth meant for us and still does today. I feel like all of this has gotten lost and we celebrate a jolly made up fat man and not the birth of our Lord. Now Grandparents don't freak out!! We won't be doing away with gift giving! We will just teach Mason that the reason we give gifts is to represent the gifts the wise men brought Baby Jesus.
I think I will leave this post on that note! Merry CHRISTmas everyone!!
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