{give yourself a break}

if you're anything like me, you almost cringe when you open your list of blogs...or your reader...or wherever it is you spend your "time with friends" on the computer.

it seems like everyone else has it all together
all their traditions and plans laid our so well
and is living in a magical land of perfect december days
preparing their precious little families for the coming of the baby Jesus...

not so.
don't believe it for a second.

{give yourself a break!}

i remember this time a few years ago...as i was just getting into the computer-world and bl@gs and all...
and being TOTALLY overwhelmed at this time of year...to the point of almost hating it...
until He led me. to Him.
and i added a couple small things that year to our family traditions...
and a couple the next year...and maybe kept the ones from the year before...or didn't...depending on how they went the year before.

it's about Him and our family.
what is it that is going to help me reflect on what He did in that humble beginning in a manger?
what is it that is going to make this a celebration for my children?
what is it that is going to nurture an atmosphere of worship in our home?
what is it that is going to create the time to allow for conversations and playing under the tree?


so...now it's your turn!
what small tradition might you add this year?
there's no pressure to continue it for 15 years to come...you might or you might not.

{give yourself a break} and look to Him...not to them.