{ Me Thinks Monday...}

I know your thinking I'm crazy its November 1st but hear me out....

Me THINKS

I just saw my first "Christmas" commercial of the season today it made me tear up then it made me sad.......Happy Holidays....it was clearly about CHRISTMAS and the sights and goodwill feelings of Christmas....

To me...... CHRISTMAS is a feeling, people seem happier, more willing to serve, more willing to look out for others, a time of traditions of making others happy......but most of all.....

Christmas is about and because of one thing that is the BIRTH of our Saviour Jesus Christ..... 

A time When the world seems more united and whether they want to admit it or see it for what it is...its because those feelings, traditions,serving others, the love of family, closeness, and love is probably the most 

CHRISTLIKE time of the WHOLE year....if only people would open their eyes and see it for what it truly is. THE spirit of CHRIST mas.....

a feeling I wish we could keep close all year long.

First some started with writing and saying Merry Xmas {to me the first step to taking Christ out of Christmas and putting a big X over HIS name and place....a huge pet peeve of mine}..to where we are now being replaced with happy holidays etc...some towns and communities across the nation are telling there employees or others to say happy holidays instead of merry Christmas..{because it might what once again offend someone seriously.....

..its heartbreaking to me..and I clearly make a point of saying merry Christmas in reply to anyone who says it to me....

Why do we live in a world where everyone is so easily offended by things that once held all things together.....the way things have always been....I know times change but values and morales shouldn't... can't we see that things worked best that way and the more people censor and take "CHRIST" out of everything the more wrong and twisted our world becomes....

I think our grandparents and great grandparents etc... are so glad they were born when they were when times were so much simpler...yet harder but for much different reasons. I on the other hand in my house want to keep the traditions and world of my grandparents in the world of today...... and so as for me and my house it will always be MERRY CHRISTMAS.....

Make the extra effort this season to say it as it is was and always should be....

Merry CHRISTMAS.

{when its actually the season..... I know this is super early but is it just me or is CHRISTMAS stuff popping up way earlier every year  Christmas merchandise, music, commercials all of it....}

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And something I've been thinking alot about lately and as this is Adoption month which you all know how much I love adoption and each of my childrens birthmothers and families. 

I simply wouldn't be where I am today with out any of them....

"You have nothing in this world more precious than your children. When you grow old, when your hair turns white and your body grows weary, when you are prone to sit in a rocker and meditate on the things of your life, nothing will be so important as the question of how your children have turned out...Do not trade your birthright as a mother for some bauble of passing value...The baby you hold in your arms will grow quickly as the sunrise and the sunset of the rushing days."

Gordon B. Hinckley 

{missing K2 but I love this picture}

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.  ~Stacia Tauscher

Have a great week...