Eating the Christmas List

Someone once advised me to make a list of all the things that I needed to do for the holidays - shopping, baking, decorating, cleaning - and then fold the list up into a little square, pour myself a glass of milk, sit down and eat the Christmas List.

"We drove by your house, Mr. Thomas, but you didn't have any decorations up," one of my dad's students said to him.

"Well, we have a wreath on our door," my dad said.

"Yeah, but that's it."

I want Chrsitmas to be small and meaningful and I struggle with that every year. I am a simple Christmas Wreath and not a pile of lights.