Christmas Presents

Lily's scooter

William's Snuggie

William opening the race car he thought every store was sold out of-we discovered e-shopping this year!
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We realized we had been going overboard with little stuff for the kids on Christmas morning, so this year, we devised a plan! We decided they each would get their stocking-full of fun stuff (that's all we could buy the-what would fit in the stocking) from Santa and 3 gifts from me and David. We have decided to include Santa because it is fun to imagine a fun, old, jolly guy who gives because of what Christ gave him-salvation. By limiting his "participation" to the stockings, we are hopefully downplaying him. The 3 gifts we give them have to fit certain criteria-this helped so much when shopping for them-it gave us focus and made the gifts more thoughtful and purposeful. One gift must be something they need. One is something they want. And the last is something that surpasses all expectation. If you didn't catch it, these three things are all things Christ is to us. We liked it and I think the kids were not as bombarded with gifts as they were last year.
We got William some pajamas, a movie with a snuggie, and a race car thing he was only dreaming of. We got Lily some pajamas, a movie, and a tricycle. Joseph got pajamas, a teething toy, and a scooter/walk around thing.