Tonight, for the fourth year running, we watched, “It’s A Wonderful Life” and the girls are sleeping next to the Christmas tree. As I type this I can hear their beautiful, deep, heavy bedtime breathing. It is so sweet!

I think this film is perfect. It is just jam packed with TRUTH and so full of LOVE and the SPIRIT.

I also think this might have been the first year that Millie actually started to “get it”.

And you know what I love most, because I believe this film is packed with goodness and truth, it will never get stale or boring or worn out — and the reason why, is that when something is true it grows with you. It keeps giving and teaching and helping you as the years roll on.

Like that awesome nun, Sister Wendy, explained – art that is true will always surprise  and enlighten you. As you change and mature, it does too!

This year, for our treat, we shared a box of chocolates.

(check out the chocolate on Millie’s upper lip! How cute is that?!)

If you are looking for some Christmas magic, may I suggest you make a nest of blankets and pillows (it doesn’t need to be fancy) next to the Christmas tree, in a perfectly still house and then lay down next to your three year old and let them talk.

Just listen.

You don’t need to say a single thing.

It’s pure MAGIC!

Clara told me how much she wished she could have a goat, “like the people in the movie” and how much her heart longed for a “stuffed animal parrot that she could call Bella & that it would be her favorite parrot in the whole wide world” and she would “share it with Millie.”

It is a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful life!