Grace's Barbie house ~ Sam's Legos
Christmas morning
Merry Christmas!
We hustled and bustled with the best of them this year and managed to get in a lot of Christmas fun. We spent time with 2 sets of grandparents, and our Minster cousins. I hosted 2 classroom parties and a neighborhood party. We went to The Nutcracker and A Christmas Carol. We decorated cookies and made our cookie tree, exchanged gifts, went bowling, opened our books each night, made a chain to count down the days, and attended the live nativity at the zoo. We decorated the house and set up model trains and 7 Christmas trees, took pictures and sent out cards. It was exhausting.
Gary and I spent many Christmases without kids and, while we enjoyed sleeping in and having a relaxing day, nothing compares to the enthusiasm of a child who wakes you at 5:30 am having already shaken each gift to determine which were Legos. We felt truly blessed this Christmas to enjoy seeing our kids enjoy Christmas.
One of my favorite things about this year was their enthusiasm for each other. Sam threw two hands in the air and cheered when Grace got her long-awaited American Girl doll. Perfect.
Hope you had a good Christmas. I must say, the exhaustion only enhances the experience, don't you think? Although I slept all day today and it was great!
