{"id":468,"date":"2006-12-06T22:30:09","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T05:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x.jimanddoni.com\/?p=468"},"modified":"2006-12-06T22:34:56","modified_gmt":"2006-12-07T05:34:56","slug":"christmas-came","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/?p=468","title":{"rendered":"CHRISTmas Came"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week Tanner went to Aunt Beck’s and he was excited to see her Christmas decorations.?? He started urging me to get going on ours so today (December 5th) we had a little party.?? We bought egg nog and ginger ale (which mosly I drank) and some cookies and candy.?? We played Christmas music and Tanner, Ty and I got all our decorations up.?? As soon as we finished Tanner wanted to call Aunt Beck.?? The first thing he said to her was “Aunt Beck!?? Can you come over??? Christmas came<\/strong>!”???? Yes indeed, it does look like Christmas came to the Brinkman house \ud83d\ude42 !?? A little off balance maybe since I let a 5 year old and 2 year old help decorate but all the more precious because of it.<\/p>\n

But then came my favorite part…<\/em><\/p>\n

During the hustle and bustle of the season, it is easy to assume that our kids miss the point.????I have tried to keep the attention on the CHRIST and make certain to correct every “Happy Holiday” greeting with a returned “Merry CHRISTmas” but have I communicated the heart of the message sufficiently to my children?<\/p>\n

Imagine my delight when Tanner??demonstrated a simple yet profound understanding of the gospel – it’s all about Jesus.??<\/p>\n

Tanner found my??miniature precious moments nativity set (that Grammy bought me years ago as a collectors item)<\/em> and he was excited to open it.?? I told??him that since he was 5, he was probably old enough to carefully set it up for me.?? When he was done, he invited me in to see his assembly.?? Tears filled my eyes when I saw it.?? When I asked him why he set it up this way he??said “Because that is what they did<\/strong><\/em>“.????Out of the mouths and hearts of babes.?? The pictures will speak for themselves.<\/p>\n

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P.S.?? This is how Ty decorated.??<\/p>\n

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Last week Tanner went to Aunt Beck’s and he was excited to see her Christmas decorations.?? He started urging me to get going on ours so today (December 5th) we had a little party.?? We bought egg nog and ginger ale (which mosly I drank) and some cookies and candy.?? We played Christmas music and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mamas-diaries"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}