The three gifts of Christmas.....
Baby Jesus received 3 gifts on Christmas: Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh. When I was pregnant we heard about a friend of my mom's who gives 3 gifts to her children for Christmas and 3 gifts only. At first I thought this was crazy, but then after talking about it Joey & I thought it was a great idea. What a great way to keep CHRIST in Christmas, to bring the religion back, and try harder not to focus on the materialism. ( don't worry...theres not a 3 gift rule for birthdays!)
So we've decided to adopt this tradition too, and teach Adelynn about it as she gets older. Don't fret, we're not mean ol' parents! She'll still get spoiled by grandparents, aunts, uncle, friends and family. But I feel like what a great way to keep it about Jesus??
I've also heard of: 'Something you want, something you need, something you'll wear, and something to read' (which is 4 gifts I guess) but I think that is a great one too! I've never thought hard about the whole gift giving thing for Christmas but being a Mommy now I've truly stopped to think about it. Makes sense to me! So we'll be instilling this tradition in our little family :)
I am SO excited to shop for her- we already got her one thing, it is so tempting to go ahead and give it to her!! but I put it away in the guest room with the other Christmas gifts and am fighting the temptation I can hardly wait till Christmas morning to see her crawl out and open gifts! Its going to be the best Christmas BY FAR!
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