Bigger and Bigger Christmas

Kristen Welch, in her book Raising Grateful Kids in an Entitled World, described the growing discontent their family experienced after pursuing more and more stuff. She describes it this way with respect to Christmas:

We scraped our money together, packed up our rented 1,000-square-foot townhome, and couldn’t believe the sellers had accepted our bottom-dollar offer on our dream house. We moved in mid-December and scrambled to put up a Charlie Brown Christmas tree, mostly for our two kids, who were two and four years old at the…