Christmas vs Santa

You all knew that it was coming! As our blog is called our walk with God. And right now if you do not know us at all you are thinking there is no Santa in that house at all! Well it's a good thing you did not place any money on that. Yes we do Santa, well now I got you thinking, because the two do not work well together do they. Well it's all about how you go about it. First off we are about the Christmas story, and our girls need to know that he the one and only came in the this world with nothing, and not a very nice place. And all his life was about giving and what he could do for others. And we use that to teach our girls that they need to be happy and glad for what they have, and look for ways to give back. And around Christmas time it seems a lot out there to give back. With the giving tree, the bell ringers, and toys for tots. (had to put that in there) And we do have the girls give at this time. And we take the whole month to look at the birth of Jesus and what each thing means. We read the Christmas story, sing songs.

But on the other hand we do Santa and have a ton of fun with it. We feel that it's good for them to be able to think that someone is watching and seeing all the good that they are doing. And when it comes right down to it, we are watching them. So we watch the tv shows and read books with him in it. And we do talk about how some people do not beleive in Santa just like some people do not beleive in God. That does not mean that we should be mean to them, we just do not push it. And when the time comes that they no longer beleive in Santa, we will have them look in to it and see what they can find. Because with all good story there is a starting point. And it will come a learning leason. I come to look at it just like Disney.

We have a good balance that works for us, and as long as we remember to have JOY in our life then we should be just fine.

Jesus
Others
Yourself

Thank you Duggars for the JOY we love it and so do our girls! It's something that we all can remember without to much work.