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Christmas was wonderful. This year we really wanted to show the kids what Christmas is all about. I think we have made the mistake of OVER doing the gift exchange in the past. My children's list just keep getting longer and longer and more extravagant. I know they are just children, but that is where it all starts, right? So this year, we played down the gifts and played up the fellowship in the name of Jesus Christ. We had a few gifts under the tree, one big one for each and a few small things that they needed...... we sang Happy Birthday to our Savior and then we started the celebration of His BIRTH! We had built one of the biggest most beautiful bonfires I have ever seen, about 50 people came and went periodically throughout the night to sing, eat deserts, drink coffee and just pass out some Christmas hugs. The children and I baked cookies, about 360 to be exact.... and we passed out little plates of them for gifts to the adults. I have to say, this Christmas was the best one ever! We celebrated for the TRUE meaning of the season and it taught us what we were missing out on, from this time forward we will not join in the worlds system by "materializing" Christmas. It's about LOVE....the birth of LOVE in this world. Merry Christmas you guys.......