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Happy lessthanaweekuntil Christmas!

There is so much to do, and with only six days left, my family and I are going to be pretty busy! Cookies still need to be baked, shopping for the cooking and presents needs to be done. We don't even have a tree yet! But, like with every busy year, we have a plan and everything that needs to be done will be just that.

Maybe I'm too old for this, but with work it seems like I'll be missing out on a few of the preparations. Even with the craziness and slight stress, the preparation is all a part of the Christmas magic. We don't just do all the work for ourselves, but for our neighbors and family. It's a part of our gift, to invest ourselves in Christmas. When I'm missing it, I feel a little like the kid who has to stay home while all the other kids got to go out and play.

But if I learned anything it was that anything different is not bad, necessarily. Different is, usually, just different. It just takes little time to grow our hearts and embrace the difference. So, this Christmas will be different than the ones I had when I was in highschool. But why shouldn't it be? I'm different too.