Christmas is over - was it worth it?

This Christmas was unlike any I've ever experienced before. My daughter couldn't make the trip so it was just my two grown sons and me. Since we're moving soon, each to a new location, we agreed there wouldn't be a gift exchange this year. After all any gifts would just turn into more to pack.

For the first time there wasn't the frenzied shopping, no wrapping, no hiding of gifts. No sneaking about.

Christmas morning I made B & G's. For those not from the south that means biscuits and sausage gravy. (For my English friends-a biscuit is a bread-type roll and not a cookie).
We watched basketball together (go Thunder) and took a walk. After the food gluttony of Thanksgiving, we kept the evening meal simple. I fixed ham, roasted potatoes and crudites. Afterwards we cleaned the kitchen together. It was a quiet day where we talked and laughed and just spent time together - very pleasant.

All in all a very good Christmas and it got me thinking...Maybe, just maybe, my Grinch's heart thought even without all the hoopla

Christmas CAME Just The Same

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice-cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling:
How could it be so? It came without ribbons! It came without tags!
It came without packages, boxes, or bags!

And he puzzled and puzzed, till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before!
"Maybe Christmas," he thought, "doesn't come from a store.
Maybe Christmas… perhaps… means a little bit more."

And what happened then...? Well...in Who-ville they say That the Grinch's small heart grew three sizes that day!

Nah, just kidding. We'll be back to rank commercialism next year!