During the holiday season, it's easy to get lost in all of the hustle and bustle of shopping, wrapping, and baking (and eating, and drinking, and eating), and forget that the purpose of the season is giving, and not necessarily of the material kind. For me, Christmas is and always has been about togetherness. My extended family has always been at least eight hours away, and now my parents and brother all live a fair distance away; we go out of our ways to make plans to be together for a …
