Special gifts for the holidays abound
THATCHER AND WAYLON carefully supervised the family’s Christmas tree selection recently at Oppriecht Acres tree farm. This was one of the family’s many decisions to shop local this holiday season.
RISING SUN - Like the Jolly Old Fat Man in red, I’ve been making my list and checking it twice. Of course because I’m a mom of two these days, I’ve been thinking ahead on the holidays since the mid-summer when Thatcher and I began our ‘Christmas Crafting Extravaganza.’
This year, more than ever before, I’ve been trying to be more thoughtful with how I give. Sure, there are certainly Amazon packages arriving on my doorstep, but far less than ever before. I’ve made a conscious effort to not only create my gifts, but purchase things from my direct community and support my friends and neighbors. I’m trying to step away a bit from giving gifts just to gift and put serious consideration into each person who I am gifting. I wish I could blab all of my (what I think are good) ideas to you, but alas we still have a couple of weeks until the big day and I can’t spill the holly jolly beans just yet. That’s just in case someone I know might happen to read this column and all.