"Take my Christmas tree down with me because there's no point my kids don't have anything to open under my tree for Christmas morning," the TikTok video begins, showing the mom disassembling the tree.

All. Amen. (Sprinkles tree with holy water.) Then the family can sing a song, an Advent carol, if it knows one, then it is time to bless the crib and eat Christmas Eve supper.

Along the way, Michael took another precautionary move. Because the farm is so remote – the town has no paved roads – he bought an automated external defibrillator, or AED, a device that can help ...