What does x-mas really mean?

Service today was about what is the true meaning of x-mas, well a big focus of all of the holiday mass readings was on children and if we could see x-mas through the eyes of a child we would see they don't need 20 toys or alot of money spent on them they only need love and imagination.  The reading also focused on forgiveness of our family of origin for being who they are and accepting them as children of god.  Wow it really spoke to me…our father always likes to inject some humor into his sermons so he started out by telling us that retail sales were up by 3 1/2% and that means at the end of all of the tallying about 450 billion dollars will have been spent on xmas!  My oh my…his point was we need to recall what xmas originally was about and if you're a believer that means the birth of baby jesus.   I think we did a good job this season between explaining to my daughter everytime she looked at the nativity scene what it was, singing songs focusing on baby jesus and giving some of her toys to those less fortunate what the true meaning of the holiday is.  I hope you and yours had a joyous holiday and wish you a wonderful New Year!