The season leading up to Christmas has been a unique one at our house this year. Since neither of our sons and their families will be with us, we combined our celebrations for birthdays, Thanksgiving, and Christmas in October and November in Missouri and Minnesota. For the only time all year, our entire family was together for our grandson’s 2nd birthday. It had to be enough. Jim and I went into Advent knowing we would have a low-key, less hectic Christmas and New Year and that was okay with us. What we didn’t count on, was that a sweet couple from our church family traveled to Busch Stadium last week…