Three Gifts

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Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa? How does your family celebrate the Holidays? Do you teach your kiddos about the other holidays? Do you take December off from schooling?

We celebrate Christmas WAY different than anyone else on the planet! And yes, we have taught our children about all the other holidays. We take off a week or 2 sometimes, with this year taking just one week off.

As far as “decorating” goes, we do not have a traditional tree. Instead we have 3 Trees! Our three small Pencil trees with white lights represent the (folktale) The Tale of Three Trees. When people ask us {and they ALWAYS do} about the three trees, we get to share Christ with them!

We also have snowmen that have been collected over the years that go on our mantle/or piano top for most of the winter season; while our Nativity stays out ALL YEAR LONG!

In our home and family, we celebrate the holidays a little different then most families when we do what we call the Three Gifts!

Jesus only received three gifts from all the Magi, so we feel it is only fair. All of the over-abundance these days just makes people (especially children) NOT appreciate what they get  and have! So we choose three gifts for our children out of these three categories: Head, Hands and Heart.

Head: something that will challenge them, make them smarter and they have to use their brains to play with or use.

Hands: something they make, create or use with their hands.

Heart: something they LOVE or something we give to them because we LOVE them and wanted them to have it.

These gifts are most likely NEVER something they specifically ASKED for (the list type things go to Grandparents, Aunts & Uncles, etc.)