We stopped at three candles and the children wanted to know why we did not light the fourth. Then after that it is Christmas. We might see a world where the wonder of things can still surprise and delight us. There is an unselfconsciousness and preciousness to each moment. Christmas is about new possibility in our lives.
Every birth is about new possibility.
How much more so when God out of sheer love desires to share in our humanity. Jesus is born. God is with us always. The Christmas gift is not our own. Joseph and especially Mary know that a child is a gift that does not entirely belong to the parent.