Mission Accomplished

Mission Accomplished!! whewwww.. I can not believe I am done with the decorating! I mailed out my Christmas cards and I am finished shopping! Yipee!!Now all I have to do is wrap and I usually talk my sweet hubby into doing most of them!:) I can't help it, he wraps so much better than I do! His packages always look so pretty and mine well... I usually say the boys wrapped them..lol:) they would get me if they knew that I said that:) Now that you all know my secret you will know if I wrapped your pkg or if Chuck did:). I was talking to my sister in law yesterday and we were talking about Christmas and she asked me what happened to the gift of giving and getting so excited to give!!After talking to her and thinking about our conversation it is so sad! Remember when you were a child and you were going to give your Mom or Dad a gift and you just could not wait.. you were so excited and you are just about to bust to give it to them well, that is my wish that me and my boys would have that feeling instead of just saying here. here is your gift! and not worry about how pretty it is wrapped and how much it cost..We adopted a family this year and they have 2 little boys who are 3 and 4 and all they asked for was a comforter and sheets so they could be warm... I tell you that has made us all stop and realize how blessed we are and how fortunate we are! It makes us feel so bad that we take these things for granted... We had a conversation with the boys and said what if you were in their situation and had to ask someone to buy you a comforter and sheets so you could be warm... how does that make you feel? Phillip's response was:I feel so sad for them and it makes me Thankful for what I have! Peyton's response was I am so sad for those little boys and it hurts me to think they don't have all that I do.. Both of the boys want to give them everything they have! Isn't that so sweet but isn't it a great learning lesson for all of us who are so blessed with so much to be able to bless someone else.. What makes me sad is that so many people do this at Thanksgiving and Christmas but what we don't think about is these families are in need all year long! We have decided to try to keep in touch with this sweet family and try and do little things all year long for them. Wee are on our way to Wednesday night service at our church and tonight is the night we take our gifts and I can honestly say we are all excited about giving these gifts!!I hope that if you are able and can give to a family in need that you will. I can promise you it will make your heart feel so much happier!!! Merry Christmas to all of you!