Our Christmas tradition

To me Christmas is a time for giving, not receiving. I won't hide the fact that I am a terrible gift receiver. I always have been. I just don't like it. But I love giving gifts, I love spending the time thinking about it trying to work out what is going to make the person receiving smile. How can I bless their lives.

And so I want to pass this love of giving onto my kids. I also want them to understand that other people may not have everything we have and it is a blessing to us and to them if we give. One way I have found to do this is by donating a Christmas hamper for a family. The kids love shopping and deciding what to buy to make a complete Christmas day for a family. I cannot handle buying prepackaged dried and tinned food so we include a fruit and veg voucher and a butcher voucher. We also buy each child in the family a gift. We don't know who they are and they don't know who we are.

Here is what the kids picked this year

I felt so truly blessed this year when Mr 1 asked if we could make two hampers next year and he would have less presents so we could afford to make two. I share only so you might be challenged to consider doing the same.