White lights or colored lights? Blinking lights or non-blinking lights? Real tree or artificial? Open gifts on Christmas Eve or Christmas morning?
These are the questions that are causing more than a few discussions or debates in our household, and yours as well, I suspect.
I’ll cut right to the chase. The Petersons prefer white lights, the non-blinking kind.
The real tree/artificial tree debate ends up as a compromise with one of each, but mostly artificial.
As far as gift opening, here again a little bit of both. A few get opened on Christmas Eve but most are opened on Christmas morning.
It’s been a couple of years since the Peterson clan has come together on Christmas Day. Recently COVID-19, and before that, busy family and work schedules have made it difficult to gather on Christmas Day.
Again this year we will be celebrating Christmas while most of you will still be shopping for presents.
For me it’s kind of like the lights, tree and gift-opening debate — or even the date. As long as you are celebrating Christmas with family, nothing else really matters.
Sorry this column is a little short, but I have to finish up my last-minute gift shopping.
This might be a little early for most of you, but Merry Christmas.