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Christmas is officially over and I hope that all of you had a great one. Now, as we look toward a new year, I found myself hanging on to Christmas just a little and wanted to share something that I wrote years ago. When the kids are little and there are tons of presents under the tree, Christmas is so much different than when the kids are all grown. There is the excitement in the air as they go to bed on Christmas Eve anxiously awaiting the next morning, wondering what Santa would bring them during the night. There is the joy for parents as we watch our little babies tear into their gifts and see the happy smiles on their faces and the shrieks when they open that one gift that you know is going to be “the big one.”
For me, the way I felt when my kids opened their gifts on Christmas morning gave me a sense of happiness that lasted for days. As a parent, our mission should be to make our kids happy. Along with raising them to one day be responsible, well-adjusted adults, I just have always thought that their happiness was of the utmost importance.
