This video made me cry, I just had to share it. Not only am I sharing it, I’m taking the advice in it to heart.
I found it over at Presentation Zen, a great blog by the author of Presentation Zen, Gar Reynolds.
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Very touching. Certain people get agitated with me because I refuse to do Santa with Riley. We started from the beginning having a family dinner- even when she was a baby and just spending an evening together. The only present we are getting her this year is a craft kit I built to make puppets and school activity items for our daily time together. My M-I-L is furious. She can't understand that we are happy to spend a whole day teaching our 2 year old how to make puppets instead of spending a $1000 on her for her to want the boxes and popcicle sticks (which I did put in the kit
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The meaning of the season is giving, being with family and celebrating Jesus. Every year, my Christmas cards say Celebrate Everyday.
I got a little wordy but thanks for sharing this Angela. It made me tear up too.
Wow Erica, good for you! I'm not nearly so good at not buying gifts as I'd like to be. My son is getting some stuff I bought him and he'll be getting a lot of gifts because he's got three homes to travel to during the holidays where everyone buys stuff.
This message was from last year but I came across it while posting a Christmas message this year. Sad but I pretty much forgot the message in it until I saw it again. You know, I'm going to start right now thinking about next year and start putting like home-made projects my little guy and I can do all throughout the year to plan for a much less commercial holiday next year – we can do it! You've inspired me.
We are making a few gifts this year though, they're really cute, cheap and easy – Super Mario Brothers 1-up holiday decorations – the link is here:
http://bit.ly/4ztj1m
Thanks for the reply Erica!
Ugg! I just replied and for some reason it's not here. It said something like this:
Good for you Erica! That's awesome that you are teaching your little one so young that Christmas is not about material stuff. You know I was in a networking group and one of the members there told about her mother who always took her to the hospital on Christmas. I think the group was a little shocked and horrified that instead of visiting family and doing presents a parent took her children to the hospital to basically visit with strangers and wish them well on a day where they were probably feeling pretty lonely. The lady who told us relayed the story with great emotion about what amazing memories it created for her and she was not upset at all that it wasn't the 'traditional' Christmas day that most people had.
Anyway, I'm getting pretty wordy myself here!
I pretty much forgot about this video as it's from last year but it popped up as I was scheduling my happy holidays message for this year. Thanks for your reply Erica, very inspiring!
Angela
ha – now I've got 2 (3 now) replies. I won't delete either because they're actually pretty different!
Angela,
We are in the same boat and that may be why I don't spend tons. Riley has 11 grandparents- She has great and great-great grandparents still alive plus step-grandparents etc. If she was any more spoiled, I don't know if I could live with her.
I didn't even notice the date on the post.
Oh yea. I tweeted it out again because I thought it was so good
Wow Erica, good for you! I'm not nearly so good at not buying gifts as I'd like to be. My son is getting some stuff I bought him and he'll be getting a lot of gifts because he's got three homes to travel to during the holidays where everyone buys stuff.
This message was from last year but I came across it while posting a Christmas message this year. Sad but I pretty much forgot the message in it until I saw it again. You know, I'm going to start right now thinking about next year and start putting like home-made projects my little guy and I can do all throughout the year to plan for a much less commercial holiday next year – we can do it! You've inspired me.
We are making a few gifts this year though, they're really cute, cheap and easy – Super Mario Brothers 1-up holiday decorations – the link is here:
http://bit.ly/4ztj1m
Thanks for the reply Erica!
Ugg! I just replied and for some reason it's not here. It said something like this:
Good for you Erica! That's awesome that you are teaching your little one so young that Christmas is not about material stuff. You know I was in a networking group and one of the members there told about her mother who always took her to the hospital on Christmas. I think the group was a little shocked and horrified that instead of visiting family and doing presents a parent took her children to the hospital to basically visit with strangers and wish them well on a day where they were probably feeling pretty lonely. The lady who told us relayed the story with great emotion about what amazing memories it created for her and she was not upset at all that it wasn't the 'traditional' Christmas day that most people had.
Anyway, I'm getting pretty wordy myself here!
I pretty much forgot about this video as it's from last year but it popped up as I was scheduling my happy holidays message for this year. Thanks for your reply Erica, very inspiring!
Angela
ha – now I've got 2 (3 now) replies. I won't delete either because they're actually pretty different!
Angela,
We are in the same boat and that may be why I don't spend tons. Riley has 11 grandparents- She has great and great-great grandparents still alive plus step-grandparents etc. If she was any more spoiled, I don't know if I could live with her.
I didn't even notice the date on the post.
Oh yea. I tweeted it out again because I thought it was so good