What Are You Giving This Year?
Every year, as the Holiday season approaches, so does the battle royale in my house over what we get the kids for Christmas. My hubby is all about the gifts! He wants to make sure that everyone gets lots and lots of gifts! I am more about time.
Time spent with each other, playing games, visiting, getting to know each other better, teasing and playing, and those late nights when the real personalities come out and we all laugh and laugh 'till we cry! We usually end up compromising, with some gifts for each of the kiddos (and now grandbabies!!) and I get to stay up with everyone into the witching hours.
Its really frustrating for my husband to shop for gifts for me, because I don't want the typical gifts. I want time and experiences with my family. I would much rather go explore a new place, go spend a weekend in a new town, or (with the family in tow) take an afternoon drive down a road we've never driven, than get a brand new air fryer I'll never use, bracelet I'll never wear or other piece of bric-a-brac that will clutter up my house.
My family is growing up, and expanding out. We still have a teenager at home, but our other four are now adulting, and are spread from Moab to Montana, and even as far as Arkansas. We don't get together very often, so we try to make the most of the time that we get together.
This holiday season we will be missing some of our kids as they will be spending the holidays with their in-laws, or needing to stay closer to home due to new employment, but we can still make plans for our family get-togethers next year. And MAYBE, JUST MAYBE, I can convince my hubby that a family vacation IS a good gift!!
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