What you want and what you need are two different things. Through all the craziness that accompanies the holiday season, the desires and necessities of those receiving gifts is often forgotten. Choosing a gift has become a trivial matter, and thoughtfulness has been tossed out the window along with all the fruitcakes that go uneaten each holiday season. The season of gift-giving, races to the shopping mall, and long lines have arrived and it s causing a shopping epidemic everywhere. Even the grumpiest Scrooge is cracking a smile this season.
Lights are lit, decorations are on display and kids are whining their way to the perfect present.
Children are sending their shopping lists to the magical North Pole in hopes that Santa will receive the message just in time before Christmas morning. Let s just say it was different from all the rest. I had what you might call an average Thanksgiving saw the relatives, ate the turkey and so on and so forth. It was really what happened the next day that left me in the dark.