Merry Christmas dearest friends and family. Christmas is kinda different this year for Dennis and me. Honestly, it’s been different for a long time. Years ago when we were raising our six children, almost everything we did related to Christmas revolved around them: their excitement and pestering for Christmas morning; using an Advent calendar that my mother made with squabbles over whose turn it was; repeating our favorite traditions from our childhoods, and establishing our own traditions.