Are Toys for Christmas even
Necessary
We are entering my all time favorite time of the
year by far. I love the Christmas holiday time. I enjoy decorating
and baking my family’s favorite holiday recipes and
also deciding on some special gifts for everyone on my list.
Now that our family is expanding to include grandchildren
this becomes an even a more magical time of the year for
us.
When our own children were toddlers we did not have
a great deal of money to spend on toys for
Christmas. I tried to get something special for everyone,
but we also needed to include practical items as gifts. This meant
that stocking stuffers usually included socks and underwear instead
of luxury items. We also bought other clothing items for the
children. Most of the toys for Christmas that our children received
were from their grandparents. This worked out well because it gave
the children something to do during the holiday time that was spent
at the grandparents houses.
Now that we are the grandparents and have more
financial resources we are the ones that get to shop for and
provide the toys for Christmas. I have to admit that the toys have
changed greatly since our children were young. Everything is either
electronic or battery operated.
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This year when my husband and I went to find gifts
for our children and their families we decided that we wanted to
give them more than material things, we wanted to give them a means
to spend family time together. Instead of buying toys for Christmas
for the youngsters and clothing or other items for the adults we
decided to make family gift baskets. Our three children were very
close when they were growing up, but jobs, children and community
activities have made it difficult for them to spend much time
together as adults. Their children enjoy playing together when we
get together at holiday time. We decided that it would be fun to
have a full family time together as a water park. We booked
reservations for all or us and had the water park send us
confirmations for each family. We also bought a board game for each
family as well as a card game. We placed the reservation
confirmation, the games and microwave popcorn in a big basket. We
also put in a gift certificate for a chain delivery pizza
place.
On Christmas the children were very excited about
having the full weekend together planned for them at the end of
January. We told them that we were also coming along so that we
could baby sit in the evening so the three couples could go out for
dinner together. This was a great idea and seemed to be
accepted very well. I don't think not one
missed getting toys for Christmas.
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