What Really Matters
by Dawn Meehan
In
the hustle and bustle and commercialism of Christmas, take time to
remember the real reason why we celebrate – the birth of Christ, our
Lord and Saviour. May you all have a blessed Christmas!
I had a
VERY long day with the kids doing little but fighting. By the time we
left for church, we were all short tempered, snapping at each other,
and not at all in the Christmas spirit. Thankfully, once at church, we
calmed down. Things were put in perspective for us. We sang Christmas
songs and began to smile at one another again. The kids didn't fight
once while we were there. Well, they did use their battery operated
candles as light sabers for a minute, but we'll forget about that part.
I
never sent out cards (sorry to all my family and friends). It just
didn't happen this year. I don't think I ever completely finished my
shopping, but it's a little late now. Several items I ordered online
have been back ordered. I just realized that the kids have eaten all
the cookies I've made and there are none to put out for Santa now. I
encouraged them to leave him a glass of wine instead. And I failed to
read the Christmas story to the kids before they went to bed.
you know what? None of that matters. It really doesn't. Christmas is
here! Christ is born! And He doesn't care if we sent out Christmas
cards. He doesn't care if we ate all the cookies we baked. He doesn't
even care if we never got around to baking a single cookie at all! He
loves us no matter how much we screw up.
Now that's worth celebrating!
Dawn Meehan (aka mom2my6pack) grew up in Chicagoland where she began her writing career 
at the age of 5 with her widely praised, The Lucky Leprechaun, an epic tale of a leprechaun who is- yes, you guessed it, lucky.
Dawn has six children, basically because she didn't want seven. She is the author of Because I Said So and spends her days blogging at BecauseISaidSo.com,
changing diapers, cleaning pudding off her ceiling, tackling
insurmountable piles of laundry, and explaining to her kids why they
can't have a pet squirrel or an indoor slip-n-slide.
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