I love your story!

Love this.

Great family tradition!

How Beautiful And So True. Your Poem Brought Tears To My Eyes. I Hope You Don’t Mind But I Would Love To Read It To My Grown Children On Christmas Eve. Many Blessings And Happy Holiday’s To Your Family From Mine.

That’s a wonderful idea and so important for the family too!! you have a lovely family.

So lovely.

You all are so inspiring! You run a fantastic business yet still have time for yourselves and family. So important in these times. Keep up the good work!

Awesome

Loved this! I remember when my kids were little we’d gather around the table and making Christmas decoration ornaments! Those ornaments are now put on the tree every year! They are sentimental to me as well as my grown children! Thanks for the smile it truly touched my heart!

Thanks for sharing this beautiful story!

Love this and am sending to my daughter and son-in-law in Texas. This will be our first Christmas with our first Grandson and what a great tradition for them to start with their new son!! Only wished we were closer to them as we live in Kentucky

Thank you! It touched my heart!

How profound and eye-opening! Thank you for sharing😊❣️

We always after holiday dinners play board games as a family and no phones allowed.

Very beautiful and brings tears to my eyes – thinking of the Christmas’s go by. Now we all have to make new memories and start new traditions along with the older ones. We do put the tech away during Christmas so we can reconnect. We play pranks on each other at Christmas. Oddly it is some of the same pranks but it always gets the kids. We try and make time for everyone as a family but also we make individual time also with each child and grandchild. We enjoy our front porch and we have many long talks on our porch which is very insightful to know what everyone is thinking – sharing the past, present and hopes for the future. One of our favorite things at Christmas is cooking together. Sometimes we have a team of two or three and make meals together. At first I found it hard to stay out of the kitchen but now I am getting use to it unless I am needed or I am part of a team.

Rick, it is great to learn what you and your wife Coleen are doing. While I was serving our country in the Air Force, I spent many days away from my family. While home, I made it my focus to spend time with my wife and four kids. After retiring, I became Mister Mom and attended all the kids activities while the wife went back to school. Now, our kids have kids of their own and my wife and I are truly blessed to have more hugs and kisses every day.

I do think reading is a wonderful way to reconnect with your family. We sing at Christmas together as a family. Many of us cannot carry a tune but it is still fun to sing outloud at Christmas. We also always play board games and work puzzles. There is something about a puzzle that draws everyone in.

We make homemade Christmas ornaments for decorating and gift giving!

I love this.

Members of the family make a point of getting our parents to family celebrations and others back – so they can have the Holidays with their grown children and the Grands and Great Grands. On the way into their community – we always make a point to visit neighbors and share hugs and hand shakes with all the other Residents – it’s so important!

Reading this makes my heart long for days past. We have four adult children who are married and all live in different cities, would be wonderful to share moments together like you and your family. It iis also great to hear this sentiment coming from a father. Thank you for sharing.

May we all learn to be present with our family!

All of my kids are grown now and have kids of there own. So it’s great just to be with them over the holidays m

We always make sure neighbors and friends have a place to go (our house) for Christmas if they don’t have family near by.

We always make sure neighbors and friends have a place to go (our house) for Christmas if they don’t have family near by.

Christmas day my entire family gets together at my Father’s house to enjoy each other’s company and great food. Christmas music plays softly in the background no cell phones, tablets or laptops are allowed when we get together for the holidays. Even if they were permitted, I honestly don’t think anyone would power on anything because we have so much fun with each other that they aren’t even thought of.

I love this! Your children are so blessed to have such loving parents willing to give so much to others. Your “new” children are going to be blessed beyond measure to have a godly home in which to live. God will bless you richly for those things you do for others.

I agree. Now that my kids are grown, those moments we have together are even more precious.

My children are adults now, but this reminds me of my moments with my children.
Game nights, reading books, family night (kids choice).
One on one time with each child is also important.
Have fun! They grow up too fast!
Merry Christmas 🎄🎁

Love these

Love this!

Its important to have family time and pay more attention to each other, you never know what time you have left

We will be turning all devices off while we play games and enjoy food. Enjoy your holidays ❤️

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That is awesome!!

Perhaps you should write some more short poems. That is awesome.

After reading this post last night, my husband & I have decided to do the same. Our time with our kid’s is so precious and we all need to just unplug and spend quality time together. Thank You for sharing with us. Happy Holidays to your and your family.

Love your family and your products!!!

Beautiful poem!!!!
Time to remember the reason for the season and this needs to be instilled in the children of today.

We are huge advocates of adoption and support so many outlets to help people with adoption. We LOVE your story!!

Love the poem!! Great insight on the true meaning of the Christmas season!! God’s blessings!!

Holidays are when we “play” with our adult kids. Board games, cards, dominoes…..it is ON!

Yes, we need to get back to life before being taken over by electronics. They are good when used in moderation as all things are

Prayers Happy Holidays

I will be unplugging this holiday season!

Your words got home for us right now. In addition I too am try g to unplug. Sending many prayers to your family and so much love for new additions ❤️

Prayers!