December 25, 2025: The Christmas Math

Two.

That’s where it started in 1998, our first Christmas as a family. We had been married for nine months.

By 2000, we had grown to three.
By 2002, four.
By 2004, five.
By 2006, six.
By 2013, seven.
By 2024, eight.

And 2026 promises the addition of another to our crew.

Each year, December 25th brings me perspective, plus a long list of gratitude. The undeserved blessings have piled up fast.

Yet, for all this counting, the Christmas math is really simple. It always circles back to just one.

The one swaddled in a manger. Heaven meeting hay.

The gift no calculator can measure.