Family, Kids, My favorite things

Watch this: The Nativity Story

Keisha Castle-Hughes as Mary and Oscar Isaac as Joseph in “The Nativity Story”.

Merry Christmas, dear friends! We are now right in the middle of the Christmas season, which ends on the Feast of the Epiphany (January 6). So while it looks like I’m publishing this post a tad late, it’s not late at all!

One of our favorite (and easy) traditions during Christmas is to watch movies. It’s not something that we do often, so it’s truly a treat to gather together under cozy blankets and watch family movies while drinking hot chocolate. While there are a few good movies which capture the spirit of the season (It’s a Wonderful Life and The Sound of Music are musts), for a while there weren’t any movies which actually told the story of the birth of Jesus Christ. Isn’t it strange and sad that among the myriad of so-called Christmas movies, hardly any of them mention the reason for the season?

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Kids

What to give to kids who have everything

Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash

Around this time of year, one the most common questions we moms ask one another is, “what meaningful gifts can we give our kids for Christmas?”, quickly followed by “how can we keep the grandparents from giving a truckload of presents to our kids?”. Because let’s face it. We live in a society where our kids have everything they need, most things they want, and a ton they don’t need or want. And in our world of plenty, we see our kids develop attitudes of greed, entitlement and ennui. These are not qualities that any parent of good standing desires in their children, surely.

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