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It’s amazing how much trash our family can generate when they’re opening Christmas presents! And you should see me attacking all those boxes and wrapping paper with my garbage bags. It may be Christmas, but there’s still trash.

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The new movie, “2012,” has freaked out a lot of moviegoers. Based on an ancient Mayan prophecy, it’s all about the world ending on December 21, 2012. Definitely not a very merry Christmas!

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It's the Christmas song words that made me briefly want to be a good boy: "He's making a list and checking it twice; gonna find out who's naughty and nice." Santa's all-important list that determines how you'll be treated at Christmas. We're big boys and girls now, and we know that list doesn't exist.

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They called it a Christmas miracle. A California dad drove into a Sierra forest, parked his truck and went looking for a Christmas tree with his three teenage children. Then the snowstorms came. They were lost and they were unprepared. After searchers looked for three days, two pilots finally saw the word “HELP” stamped in the snow and a man waving. For that lost family, Christmas meant rescue.

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Last Christmas, our local news told the story of a little Amish girl who was thrown from a runaway buggy. In spite of the efforts of the searchers, she was outside all night in freezing temperatures. Then, after ten hours, a woman found little Hannah, all huddled up, very cold but alive. The doctors called her their “Christmas miracle.”

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Last Christmas, somebody stole the Jesus figurine from a park Nativity scene. They found Him, badly defaced and damaged. Baby Jesus was treated horribly.

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You know, in a way, all of us parents can divide our life into two parts—before the baby and after the baby. Your life’s never the same after that child is born!

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There are several ways you can play with an empty cardboard gift wrap tube. Look through it like a telescope, blow into it like a trumpet, or pretend it’s a shepherd’s staff. That’s what our two-year-old granddaughter was doing as she wandered through our house. She said, “I’m looking for my lost sheep.” I told her about a Nativity in the next room where there was a sheep. She came back carrying it and saying, “I found my lost sheep.”

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What to buy for certain people! For a lot of Christmas shoppers, the answer is gift cards! They can go to the store later and buy whatever they want for the amount of that card…if the store is still around when they go there. That was a big recession question last Christmas—will the store still be there to stand behind what was paid for?

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Recently, some friends' one-year-old baby had to be evacuated by air to a children's hospital. Mom thought she’d be able to fly with the little guy, but at the last minute she learned she couldn’t go with him. Her cell phone photos tell the story: a little boy in the window of a chopper, crying for his mommy, and mommy watching with a broken heart as he took off.