My kids are 6 and 3 years old and are absolutely in awe of the whole Christmas season. Yes, they understand it's celebrating Christ's birthday (and Daddy's) but they also love the lights, the trees, the smells (yes Christmas has smells) and the overall excuse to let ordinary-every-day-life become a little magical and special. My son doesn't remember where he set his back pack 5 minutes ago but he can tell me a play by play of what happened the last two years during Christmas. So even though decorating and planning ahead aren't my strong suits I put up the tree and lights, sing Christmas songs in the car on repeat, bake green and red snicker-doodles, buy and eat candy canes (which in turn equals horribly sticky mess), sprinkle glitter on the walk to show where the elves walked (even though I'll be sweeping it up for the next 7 months), watch old Christmas cartoons, tediously wrap presents that will just be torn open, set out cookies and milk for Santa and some carrots for the reindeer, and take some time out to see Christmas through their eyes... Merry Christmas.
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