The news is rife with stories of the sour economy and upcoming "lean" Christmas. As I hustled and bustled with the best of them at 6 a.m. at Toys R' Us for the after-Thanksgiving sales, I took stock of the situation. Judging by the carts and carts laden with gifts, a lean Christmas might mean 15 toys per child under the tree instead of 30.
Painful indeed.
My children and I are reading "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
I know, I know. We all pine for a simpler time, but imagine this scenario from Christmas morning, when the children found their gifts:
"In each stocking there was a pair of bright red mittens, and there was a long, flat stick of red-and-white-striped peppermint candy, all beautifully notched along each side.
They were all so happy they could hardly speak. They just looked with shining eyes at those lovely Christmas presents."
Tiffany Gee Lewis is a freelance writer for Deseret News, where she writes the "In the Whirled column," as well as news stories. She also writes for the Minneapolis Star Tribune and is a contributor to the Friend Magazines more ..
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