I've always loved this time of the year. It's so much fun getting ready for Christmas with all the family traditions, good food, Christmas lights, and, of course, presents! This season is so much more fun now that that we have Noah to share it with. We have been trying to start new family traditions of our own this year. So, for Christmas, we decorated the house, then we let Noah put the star on the tree, and finished up with a trip to the Yukon park to look at all the Christmas lights. Noah absolutely loved it! He was really into the lights and couldn't quite take it all it. He was whipping his head around like crazy just trying to look at all of it. This will be a tradition that he will hopefully really enjoy for years to come. I'm not sure what we will do when we have more than one child, I guess they will just have to take turns putting the star on the tree.
I also want to spend a lot of time each Christmas teaching Noah about why we celebrate Christmas. That it's not really about all the fun stuff that we do, although that's fine. I just want him to understand that there is something much more important to celebrate. Jesus came to this earth in order to save us, to give everything he had to us, so that we can be free to live our lives built on love. I want to do something each year that shows Noah how we can thank Jesus for what he has done for us by giving ourselves back to him through loving others. This year we are going to buy presents for a child from Abby's school that doesn't have any other way of getting anything for Christmas. Hopefully, he will learn to really enjoy this and become a person that is filled with love for others instead of anger and indifference like so many people are these days.
Noah putting the star on the Christmas tree
Helping mommy put the tree together
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