Melissa, the kids, and my mother-in-law are all a bit frustrated with me.<\/p>\n\n\n
And it’s because I can’t answer a simple question: “What do you want for Christmas?”<\/p>\n\n\n
I hesitate to write about this since it will undoubtedly come across as holier-than-thou, but it’s what’s on my mind tonight:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
We’re about a week out from Christmas – and I can honestly say that I want nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n
Absolutely nothing.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
I have all I need and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
The one exception is handmade gifts. They are always welcomed and cherished.<\/p>\n\n\n
However, if someone feels the need to spend money on me, rather than buying some thing<\/i><\/b>, I would prefer they give the money instead to Mission Resource in my name. Or I can point them to several missionaries I would like to be able to pass some money to: Kate and Storly, Kacie and Mikken, Joel, Joshua, or Kelli.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
On Christmas morning, support for a missionary and a chocolate covered marshmallow Santa would make me the happiest.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
And the Santa isn’t necessary.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Melissa, the kids, and my mother-in-law are all a bit frustrated with me. And it’s because I can’t answer a simple question: “What do you want for Christmas?” I hesitate to write about this since it will undoubtedly come across as holier-than-thou, but it’s what’s on my mind tonight:\u00a0 We’re about a week out from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3060,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions\/3060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}