The Gift of Time
This past Christmas my husband and I decided to try to push Christmas gifts to more "experience" based gifts instead of toys that they'll play with for a month then lose or toss into the black hole that is our toy box. One of the best ideas we found was "The Gift of Time". As parents of 3 young children ages 3, 4 and 9; we very rarely do something fun with just one of them one on one. Who has the time? During our search for AFFORDABLE experience based gift ideas I read a phrase that said something along the lines of "Instead of saying 'I don't have time' say 'It's not a priority' and see how that feels". This hit my husband and I right in the gut. How many times had we told our children "No babe, I'm making dinner, I don't have time" or "No, can't you see I'm folding laundry? I don't have time" or "Not right now I need to clean this toilet, I don't have time"
