I love the direction you are going in - one I have tried to move toward for several years now with my family. There is a church out west that has started something called the Advent Conspiracy where money families would have spent on a typical holiday gift budget is shifted toward clean water sources for third world countries. The only gifts given are relational or handmade. Go to www.adventconspiracy.org for more info.

Have a Blessed Savior's Birth - R