Weekend Kindness
Reaching Others Through Kindness

For the first time that I can remember, we did Christmas on Thanksgiving.  Well, not totally.  Just my brother and his wife.  And they didn’t give us any advanced warning, so they gave us gifts for Christmas and my oldest son’s birthday (somehow they missed my wife’s birthday?) and didn’t really have any good ideas to give us about what to get them.

But anyway, I’m not sure what to think of this concept.  On the one hand it sounds like a great idea.  The holidays are stressed as it is, and one of the biggest stresses is where you will end up for which holiday.  If you could streamline the whole giving thing to match up when the whole family was around you’d spread out the gift buying (last minute would now be in November instead of December) and whole families would have it easier when it comes to getting together.

Would that confuse the holidays, though?  Would we still be able to be thankful if we knew we were getting goodies?

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