So here’s my family’s seasonal dilemma: We love the holiday season, and
particularly Christmas. The only problem is that looking through the eyes of our two-year-old,
we’ve realized that much of what we love about the season comes with a
implicit anticipation of the Big Day, especially our beloved advent
calendar. This means that if all that happens on the Big Day is
presents, then no matter how restrained we’ve been in our
purchases/creations or how studiously we’ve avoided the malls, we’ve
nonetheless just taught our kid that the Christmas gift exchange is
itself worth a month’s worth of ramp up. Ick.
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