2017 Home for the Holidays

2017 Home for the Holidays LINCOLN DAILY NEWS November 22, 2017 Page 45 may delight in what you did not spend this year. Nobody really believes that elaborate spending on decorations either produces or demonstrates the real Christmas Spirit. Start early to “get your mind around” Christmas Christmas should not blind-side any of us. Retailers and E-tailers urge us to start our Christmas spending early. We can have better control of our celebration if we move even earlier on our Christmas thinking and planning. Discuss Christmas expectations with the people you are closest to. This should probably have taken place last month, but tomorrow at the latest. . . Do you need help in stirring your Christmas Spirit? Use Netflix or other movie sources to watch, maybe even binge-watch classic Christmas movies. . . Read the Christmas story in the Bible before the days you expect it to be read in your church. . . As the various Christmas programs and concerts begin to pop-up in different places in the community, go to several of them, including presentations in churches and venues other than the ones you usually attend. And go, not as a critic, but as a participant. If you will consider these suggestions, and adopt a few of them, your January reflections on Christmas are definitely likely to be less stressful, and probably somewhat merrier. Make Christmas what you really want it to be.