The Perfect Gift?

So I went spent the day in Red Deer with a dear friend of mine on Friday. Got the last minute shopping done for Christmas and hope that I don’t have to face the crazy Christmas crowd again. I can’t believe how many people are in the stores on an early weekday morning. (Don’t people out there have jobs?)We thought that if we started first thing in the morning we would miss the masses but we were wrong. We shopped til we dropped, went to see the movie The Holiday and then I got to eat for the first time at Tony Roma’s. The movie was good….one of those that makes you cry and laugh. I think they have taken a few scenes from my life to make it. You will have to watch it to see what I mean. I will probably have to buy it when it comes out. Tony Roma’s was fantastic. The ribs are outta this world!

With the hustle and bustle of Christmas I am reminded of how crazy and out of hand it is. The amount of money that gets spent for the sake of having the presents under the tree is astounding. While I was out in the malls I saw many big ticket items being carried away to place under the tree, although I am not too sure if some of them would even fit.

I think the Christmas we know and the Christmas of our grandparents has got to be so different. I bet you that finding that perfect gift for grandma wasn’t so hard for grandpa. That generation didn’t already “have it all” like so many of us already do. It is difficult to think of the “perfect” gift for my kids and still be able to afford it. How often do we do without like our grandparents did? I have to say that there is precious little that I need and don’t have. With that said there is precious little that I want and don’t have. (maybe some of those big ticket items and a new bottle of my Gucci perfume)

My thought is that when our grandparents were young there was a ton of things that could have been gifted. I bet Christmas was more about spending time with loved ones and being thankful for what they did have. Would it be too much to say that Christmas would have meant more then?