I started my holiday festivities with a trip over to Frankenmuth, MI with Heather and our very favourite thing there was their play on how important it is to remember that this HOLIDAY SEASON comes for a very good reason and our society has come to forget that! All of this STUFF can easily cloud our real vision of the holiday! When we went to Broner's Christmas store (holy moly, 27 acres of Christmas stuff....totally amazing!) they sold a gold "cause" ribbon that states simply "Just say Merry CHRISTmas!" We laughed so hard at that!! It's so true! Forget all this stuff about "Happy Holidays!" or "Season's Greetings!" NONE OF US would have this time off school or work, had it not been for Jesus' birth!!! My new favourite Christina children's band is a group called "Go Fish" and they sing a song called "Christmas with a Capital C" and I love this song soooo much (look it up online, it's everywhere. Try this link on youtube, some of the graphics aren't things I necessarily agree with, but the song is awesome.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJxQhfeU3I0 ), listen to that song and see what things stick out in your mind! It's a very funny song! (there is one line I don't agree with, but overall, the song is great, so is their other music for kids, they have a song called "Jammie Time" that my kids LOVE! Check them out at www.gofishguys.com Their tag line cracks me up "Great music for kids that won't drive the parents BONKERS! Haha!!!) So the way I see it, is lets us as Christians celebrate our holiday and be proud to express it! So in this time of preparing, I challenge each of you out there to wish EVERYONE a "Merry CHRISTmas!", let's not forget why we really have all this "fun" stuff to do!
Yeah I know, this sounds a bit like a sermon (I suppose I just have been listening well lately! LOL), but it honestly is what keeps coming up for me this CHRISTmas season! So I thought I'd be one of the first to wish you all a very Merry CHRISTmas!!! Enjoy it! All of it! Every little piece of torn up paper that represented hours of wrapping, every single shove in lines for those 'oh so importnant toys, they MUST HAVE or they'll die!' (hehe!), and most importantly every one of the smiles and hugs your kids will give you when they realize that they are loved soooo much!!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS to you and your family from the Beneteau family!!!
