A belated Christmas Post

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We have been pretty focused on settling back into our normal lives, but I am aware that a much belated post on Christmas is due, so here goes:

We had a nice quiet Christmas eve at home. J. made dinner and we sat down as a family for a wonderful dinner including my first rendition of figgy pudding. The kids were very excited to be given cloth napkins and taught to toast their glasses. Once the kids were in their Christmas PJs and snugly in bed we sent to putting out the presents, which had been hidden away up until then.

On Christmas morning the kids woke up at 5:00am. We have no idea if it was due to Christmas (they did not ask to go open presents) or simply a fluke. After fruitlessly trying to get everyone in the house back to bed, we gave in at 6:00am and decided to have a very early Christmas. At first the kids were most excited by the fire in the fireplace, but quickly noticed the presents, presents, and more presents. We started with their stockings from Santa. Santa was kind enough to fulfill Sadie's Christmas wish and bought her purple chocolate. After a few pieces of chocolate we managed to pry the chocolate out of the kids' hands and move onto the abundance of presents.

There was a lot for the kids to be excited about. They spent a good 20 minutes going around on their inchworms from Uncles Craig and Ken. Their were many wardrobe changes as they opened presents with clothes in them. Jack had to wear the Curious George t-shirt also from Uncles Craig and Ken, which he then accessorized with a beanie from Momma Su. Sadie was most taken by a ballet dress from Grammy and Papa. It took us about 4 hours, but we did manage to open all the presents by 10:00am. At which point we all went down for a long nap.

We spent the afternoon making calls to our family far and wide, and then headed over to our friends Jay and Jen's house for a big Christmas dinner. We had a wonderful dinner and didn't have to clean up! We were home and settled in by 8:00.

It was our first Christmas in our own home, and hopefully the first of many wonderful Christmas' to come.