Merry Christmas

Christmas started off a little rocky for me this year. For some reason I just couldn't seem to get myself in the right "holiday spirit". I just felt off! The week after Thanksgiving I forced myself to put up the tree and start my shopping. It helped, but something still just felt lagging. I allowed myself to take the year off from sending Christmas cards and that seemed to eliviate some stress and make me feel better. A lot of my shopping was done online making it less stressful then getting three kids bundled up and in and out of the car! The girls' Chirstmas programs at school were so very cute this year and lifted my holiday blues. They were so cute and so very excited.

On Christmas Eve we were driving in the car and Jn asked why it wasn't snowing and she decided she should pray and ask God for snow. So she looked at her sister and said, "Close your eyes Jh and let's talk to God." It was so precious!

Christmas Eve is always spent at B's parents home and it was very nice this year. When we returned home the kids got to open their one gift from mom and dad - their Christmas PJs.

I absolutely adored their PJs this year. I love how all 3 of the matched! I know I won't be able to do this every year as they grow - but for now I am cherishing it!

Milk (both regular and soy) and cookies were placed by the tree for Santa to enjoy after dropping off gifts! And reindeer food was placed out front so that Rudolph would have enough energy to finish delivery presents!

After the kids were in bed and fast asleep the wrapping began. B and I were up until 1am, but we had a good time!

In our house Santa has devised a really cool present identification system. Each child's presents are wrapped in their own unique paper and "keys" are left so that no mistakes will be made! This eliminates Santas need for tags! Santa is a bit lazy and finds this to be much faster and easier! :)


Jn was up at 7am and Jh followed at 7:30am. The rest of the family arrived at 8am and grabbed some Dunkin Donuts, coffee and found their places to watch the present opening. The girls were so excited and tore through the presents with such passion! What had taken hours to wrap was all completely disassembled in a matter of 20 minutes! But they loved all of their presents!

For Uncle N it was a tough morning! After all the presents were unwrapped he had to have a little nap!

It was a good day for all! Merry Christmas to all! And Happy Birthday Jesus!