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2016 Home For the Holidays
LINCOLN DAILY NEWS November 23, 2016
On the twelfth day of
Christmas
my true love sent to me:
12 Drummers
Drumming
Eleven Pipers Piping
Ten Lords a Leaping
Nine Ladies Dancing
Eight Maids a Milking
Seven Swans a
Swimming
Six Geese a Laying
Five Golden Rings
Four Calling Birds
Three French Hens
Two Turtle Doves
and a Partridge in a
Pear Tree
As Christmas time approaches, for many children
it becomes a time of year of making lists, visiting
Santa, and imagining all the wonderful gifts that
will be under the tree on Christmas morning. For
those children, it is a wonderful time of year, filled
with great expectations and excitement.
However, for some families, the season may
contain some uncertainty. Will there be enough
money to pay the
rent? Will we have
enough food to last
through the kids’
Christmas vacation?
How can we impress
upon our children that
they are loved when
they do not receive
the ‘must have”
toy or game of the
season?
As we look at the
Christmas season,
we see that much
of it becomes about
getting, and less
about giving each
year. Even our holiday music brings to mind
what we may get. In the song the 12 Days of
Christmas, it is all about what “my true love gave
to me.” Nothing is said about what the “me” in
the song gave back.
At Christmas time, we as parents have a perfect
opportunity to impress upon our young ones
that Christmas can and should be about giving.
Making memories through giving
By Nila Smith
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