Well, hello, my friends, and welcome to Monday morning motivation with John O'Leary Christmas

Week edition. We always like to begin around here with a quote. So let's do exactly that.

Here it goes. To be content with little

is difficult. To be content with much impossible. It's an awesome quote. I'm going to say to you

one more time. To be content with little is difficult, but to be content with much impossible.

That quote reminds me of a question I heard from my son several Christmases ago,

and the question was this, is that all? Is that all? It's an innocent enough question unless

it's being asked by one of your kids on a Christmas morning. Is that all? You see, the holidays

are said to be the most wonderful time of the year.

They can, however, also be an incredibly busy and stressful time within the year, in particular during a global pandemic.

Several years ago, we went to church with Best Family, Christmas Eve, and then drove to my parents'

house to reconnect with cousins, to eat dinner, and to open up some presents. As it got late, we then

drove our three, five, seven, and nine-year-old children back to visit Best Family to enjoy

a late-night dessert, more holiday holiday cheer to sing some Christmas songs,

and to open up, you guessed it, a few more presents. After an exhausting day with little kids,

we dragged our four ones out of the party, tethered them into their car seats, drove them home,

carried them to their rooms, and tucked them into their beds.

Then, fueled with a glass of wine, Beth and I assisted Santa with wrapping some presents, laying

them around the tree, stuffing stockings before finally collapsing into bed. As the sun peaked over

the horizon, little footsteps, pitter-pattered down the

hallway into our bedroom, loudly pronouncing the dawn of Christmas morning. Pulling their mom and

dad out of bed, the kids tugged us downstairs. They raced to the stockings. They grabbed their

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