Alejandra Wagnon, an eleventh-grade student of Maricella Barrera at William J. Brennan High School in San Antonio, Texas, read and responded to the online YES! Magazine article, “Less Stuff, More Heart: 5 Gifts On a New Dad’s Christmas List,” by Christopher Zumski Finke. However, with the holiday season fast approaching, the only gift I am given is time to think. With two weeks off from school, coupled with my mother’s hectic work schedule, family time is limited to none. I want to recognize her in her totality, in her strength and her weakness, in her love and her hate.