Holly Richardson: Happy Thanksgiving, bring on Christmas cheer

Thanksgiving is upon us and therefore, so is Christmas. We love both.We have tried all kinds of different approaches to the Christmas season and to Christmas Day itself. For a couple of years, we tried dollar store toys and had each child give to every other child. By the time we had nine children, that became so unwieldy that we quit and tried something else.We tried giving three gifts for Christmas, figuring if three gifts were good enough for baby Jesus, they were good enough for us. We did s