No Presents Under the Tree

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For the first time ever, there are no gifts under my Christmas tree. I have chosen this. As a family everyone will have a stocking on Christmas morning, this is my concession to the retail side of the holiday. I finally feel free.

I don’t know if I could have done this when my children were small. The pressure to perform a ‘magical Christmas’ full of all the trimmings and gifts is pretty intense. Every year I swore…