Gosh it is disgusting, isn't it!? I feel like it is being crammed down my throat.

If you can imagine, my parents used to say that Santa brought everything, even the tree! So on Christmas eve they had to put the tree up as well ! They wouldn't have been able to do that in this day and age, would they? And that is the sad part to me. The holiday has lost its magic for the kids. They see it for the reality it has become: a loud, crass, commercial and materialistic "Winterfest".

But... this is a good time to think about how to make it the kind of holiday we desire. What we will include or add, what we will delete or ignore, etc. We can paint our own picture!