I love the old fashioned Christmas spirit but I'm not sure it can be found in a lot of places. Since this year was the first year in our neck of the woods that the Day after Thanksgiving sales started as early as 8 PM on Thanksgiving day, I'm afraid Christmas Day will also lose its reverance.

I don't know what we would do without our crazy stockings, and all the ohter things we do to make our Christmas special. I think one thing that does help for us is to have it on New Years day. Or rather it's usually one week after Christmas on a Saturday. Everyone has had thier big holiday parties and it's time to put Christmas back into perspective.