Thats my thought too. We aren't getting any younger and the sad realty is eventually the kids will be grown and out on their own. So we try to make their christmases as special as we canAgreed. We don't have kids, but my wife's brother "lost it" and flaked-out on his two kids when his wife (her SIL) passed in '19, so we've "adopted" them as our own for Christmas, and I gotta say- they make out pretty darn good, based on what I see in our bank statements and accounting program.
And that's ok, as I can't imagine what it's like to (literally) lose your mother and (figuratively) your father when you're still a teenager.

















