The children have not stirred and now it is after 12:30 PM. My wife, who got up before 6 AM, is now getting antsy about that fact. Today was to be the day where they'd go shopping together so each of them could have something in their stockings on Christmas.
I really don't understand the purpose of presents within the family, especially now that we have Amazon prime and when anyone needs something it is obtained withing a couple of days of the request.
I did love it when the kids were young and drew those cards that all kids draw for birthday or other special occasion. What sort of acts as adults deliver the same type of feeling?
I stumbled onto one of those. JibJab had been promoting its seasonal videos. When they first started and gave their videos out for free, I made several of them. But now it is for pay and it is not so much the money, but once you give a company like this your credit card information it is all over but the crying. So what I did is take a photo of my siblings and I when we were young kids (it's in black and white) and put cutouts of the heads into a JibJab movie. But instead of making the movie I simply took a screen shot of the result and emailed that picture to my brother and sister, along with a bit of word play by means of introduction.
They loved it!
I don't know what other little acts of creativity might induce the same sort of reaction, but I'm pretty convinced that is much better than material gifts.
My wife just woke up the kids. Time for me to sign off.
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