Enthusiasm for Giving

This morning when I was in the shower, yes the place where ideas seems to rain down on my mind - it's got to be the negative ions. Anyhow in the shower I had an idea of something we could do as a family for Christmas.  We are not going to have a very big Christmas, in fact we are going to have a very small Christmas in terms of the worldly view of the holiday.  It has been a hard thing for me to be excited about Christmas for a couple of reasons - first, the kids are going to Alaska on Friday and I will not see them at all this Christmas.  Second, we have no money.  The move of the business has left us strapped and so I have gone without pay a few times and that has left us in a very tight financial situation.  I have a few hundred dollars set aside for emergency purposes and I may be able to do a little Christmas something with some of that but really that is not the point of this post.  I had an idea of something we could give for Christmas this year.  Tonight I shared that idea with the kids and explained the money situation to them.  They decided that we should move forward with the idea and try to give a little Christmas something to others.  We got started tonight and I will share more of that in a later post.  I am grateful for Natty, Jack and Andy and their enthusiasm for giving what we can to others this Christmas.  I hope this will be one of those things that they will remember and I think it can become a tradition for our family.