‘Tis the season of comparison. Family pictures, holiday decorations, party fashion, and bigger and better Christmas trees. Our newsfeeds are flooded with opportunities to compare our lives, our family, our “happiness” with everyone else’s. I’ve felt it, and I bet you have too – whether you have admitted it or not. Social media puts a cyber-spotlight on “who-does-it-best” and can turn the most wonderful time of the year into the most competitive time of year…if we let it.

We have to know our limitations (physically and financially), be firm in who we are and what truly matters to us, and remember that in five years we won’t remember the decorations or what we wore…but we WILL remember the smiles on our family’s faces and the love that was built this year.

So what if my Christmas card is a snapshot from Thanksgiving because my kids don’t smile as well for other people. So what if my Christmas tree has more homemade decorations than store bought and was mostly decorated by my kids.

So what if my Christmas party attire is maybe a year or too behind the trend. My heart is full with the people around me, the Christmas music that I can’t get out of my head and the knowledge that this is what lifetime memories are made of.

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