Christmas Gets a Bad "Wrap"

I am so sick of everyone saying, "Christmas has gotten too commercial." You're absolutely right! The Christmas season has become driven by money and spending and having the latest electronics and the most lights, and the biggest tree, and on, and on, and on. But Christmas, itself, is what you make it. I posted a couple of weeks ago about how much I love Christmas. I do! I love the music, the decorations, the surprises, the warm feeling I get on Christmas Eve when we sing "Silent Night" by candlelight, and everyone raises their candles and the Church sanctuary is bathed in a soft glow, and I never make it past the first verse because I'm crying. I like unwrapping each ornament to put on the tree and let the memories it brings wash over me like a flood, some happy, some bittersweet. Call me sappy, but I think it's a magical time. I always have. There is a lot of pressure to BUY! BUY! BUY!, but we don't have to give into that and let it bring us and everyone else around us down.
Dr. Seuss said it best in "How the Grinch Stole Christmas":
                "Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more."
Make Christmas, this year, what YOU want it to be.