Merry Christmas

I hope one and all had a great Christmas full of family love and laughter.

We had a great day. This is only the second time in about 15 years that we have been in our own house for Christmas (we usually visit our parents - either his or mine). While we miss spending time with our parents, staying home and having our own little family Christmas quite enjoyable.

We took little one to the children's mass on Christmas eve. Little one heard the priest calling all the children to the front for the sermon. She decided that she wanted to go up as well. As we were sitting near the back, she strode to the front and nicely sat down with the rest of the kids. She was so determined to do this. She sat through the entire sermon with rapt attention to the priest and the other kids. (I followed her up and sat in a pew behind her. I could not believe 1) that she would actually walk up by herself and 2) that she would sit there for the entire sermon. She is just growing up too fast.)

We had dinner and a playdate with one of little one's friends. The two little girls just played and played. The adults sat at the dinner table and chatted. We could hear the girls giggling and giggling and giggling some more. Every now and then they would come out. One time they had tiaras on their heads. Another they had stethoscopes around their necks. We finally left at about 9pm with the little ones showing no signs of slowing down.

Christmas morning found us all (hubby, me, little one, Nola and Barney [ our visiting dog]gathered around the tree to see what Santa had brought us. Little one found her stocking was filled with fun stuff. The first thing she pulled out was the stuff to make bubbles. Well, that put a stop to the rest of the festivities as we had to go and make bubbles for awhile. Little one helped us all unwrap our presents. She loved ripping the paper and opening all the boxes. She did not really care what was in the box. Santa even remembered Nola and Barney, even though they had not been especially good dogs the last couple of days.

I now have plenty of new material to get some scrapping done.