said by Gone:The is the first Christmas I've "felt" in years, and I chalk it up to the fact that I now have a child to share it with.
That makes a big difference. It was just a couple of days before Christmas that we found out my wife was pregnant. For me, that brought back all sorts of memories from when I was young and what Christmas was like. I was so excited about those memories that were going to happen. Of course we had no idea that we were having twins.
They make Christmas different, that is for sure. The one year, they were 2 I think, the big hit was a last minute gift my mom picked up from the dollar store: snow shovels. The girls ran around all day with the shovels in one hand and a jingle bell ornament in the other.