21st Century Family - Parenting Heavenly Children

Today is the day we decorate the Christmas tree. In recent years, it has been a mixed-emotion kind of thing. Gone are the days when our seven little children were thrilled to be lining up to get thier turn to receive one of the ornaments from Mama to put it on the tree with their own creative and special touch. It is something almost disdained as they think it somehow linked to little-kiddom, and being considered little. It is now hard to find a time when they can all make it here at the same time, and they are anxious to leave. They watch their watches almost as soon as they get here. It is sometimes hard not to feel a certain sense of sadness.