We spent Black Friday at the zoo, where this duckling tried to bond with Hypatia and follow her out of the avian area.
I'm very grateful to feel no urgency about my Christmas shopping. My extended family does a Secret Santa gift exchange, so we all only need to get one gift. My in-law's are a smaller family and are pretty laid back about gift giving also. And my immediate family will only be exchanging small, mostly homemade gifts, and expecting Santa to come just to fill the stockings with some small things.
Our usual routine is to pick a shopping day and to make a day of it in our small downtown shopping area, for festive fun. No real crowds, no parking lots, no lines to speak of, and no cranky mall employees.
I love the Christmas season, and am grateful to start it the same way I want to end it: with family and togetherness and hopes for a peaceful, better world.
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