Christmas 2008
Ok...so I'm obviously way behind in my blog updates! Seriously-I have no clue where my working-mom friends find the time to do all they do. I stay home & still cannot get everything done I want to.
Christmas was a little less hectic this year-but still need to fine-tune it some. I think it was made worse by the fact that ALL 4 of us came down with nasty colds shortly after Leah's birthday and wiped us out.
We saw family Monday evening, Tuesday evening, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day & Saturday!
On Christmas eve, we went to our church service and kept both kids with us. That was an experience and I think next year-they will attend the kids program! Then home to gather our food and head to Scott's Aunt & Uncle's house for our traditional Mexican food Christmas eve dinner. His cousin Katie & her friend Pete wore Leah out after dinner so that both kids fell asleep on the short drive home. (Scott's uncle lives on our street-but our driveway is maybe 3/4 mile from his house!)
After getting the kids tucked in bed, leaving a gingerbread man & some milk out for Santa, Scott & I finally fell in bed ourselves. Nolan was the first to wake up around 6am-which of course woke up Mom & Dad. Sister was still asleep-but we could see that Santa had arrived sometime during the night bearing gifts for the kids.
We spent a leisurely Christmas morning playing with the toys from Santa, checking out the goods Santa had left in all of our stockings, and Leah & Nolan opening their 3 gifts from Mom & Dad. Around 1pm we went to Scott's parent's house for an early Christmas dinner and then some more gift opening.
We then had 1 day to rest and then it was off to my Mom's for another Christmas dinner and gift exchange!
My only dilemma this year (other than being sick & having to be gone every night the week of Christmas), was Leah and her wig. You may have seen Leah wearing a blond wig at her co-birthday party with her friend Reagan. Reagan had this blond wig that Leah absolutely adored. And decided she wanted to ask Santa for "some pretend hair with curls". Unfortunatley-I had heard from an elf that Santa had already decided on what to give Leah...and it was NOT "pretend hair". My dilemma was that my poor daughter would wake up Christmas morning in hopes of getting her "pretend hair with curls" from Santa and being completely devastated that Santa did NOT bring her "pretend hair with curls" and therefore completely ruin Christmas and all future gift giving this holiday!
Luckily...Mema knew that Leah wanted "pretend hair" and proceeded to ask Reagan's mommy where she got it and bought Leah her wig. However...as we were not exchanging gifts w/Mema & Grandpa until after dinner on Christmas...I still had the dilemma of Leah being thoroughly devastated by Santa. So on Tuesday night-when Leah's uncle Mike & aunt Erica were in town and we exchanged gifts with them, Mema had asked (and was granted permission from mom) to give Leah 1 gift early. The wig...thereby eliminating all future disappointment in opening gifts that were not the "pretend hair". Mema saved the day!
After adding photos to our slideshow for Christmas-I think we probably have more video of Christmas than photos-at least that is what I'm hoping when I finally get around to converting the video to DVD!
Happy New Year all!
Christmas was a little less hectic this year-but still need to fine-tune it some. I think it was made worse by the fact that ALL 4 of us came down with nasty colds shortly after Leah's birthday and wiped us out.
We saw family Monday evening, Tuesday evening, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day & Saturday!
On Christmas eve, we went to our church service and kept both kids with us. That was an experience and I think next year-they will attend the kids program! Then home to gather our food and head to Scott's Aunt & Uncle's house for our traditional Mexican food Christmas eve dinner. His cousin Katie & her friend Pete wore Leah out after dinner so that both kids fell asleep on the short drive home. (Scott's uncle lives on our street-but our driveway is maybe 3/4 mile from his house!)
After getting the kids tucked in bed, leaving a gingerbread man & some milk out for Santa, Scott & I finally fell in bed ourselves. Nolan was the first to wake up around 6am-which of course woke up Mom & Dad. Sister was still asleep-but we could see that Santa had arrived sometime during the night bearing gifts for the kids.
We spent a leisurely Christmas morning playing with the toys from Santa, checking out the goods Santa had left in all of our stockings, and Leah & Nolan opening their 3 gifts from Mom & Dad. Around 1pm we went to Scott's parent's house for an early Christmas dinner and then some more gift opening.
We then had 1 day to rest and then it was off to my Mom's for another Christmas dinner and gift exchange!
My only dilemma this year (other than being sick & having to be gone every night the week of Christmas), was Leah and her wig. You may have seen Leah wearing a blond wig at her co-birthday party with her friend Reagan. Reagan had this blond wig that Leah absolutely adored. And decided she wanted to ask Santa for "some pretend hair with curls". Unfortunatley-I had heard from an elf that Santa had already decided on what to give Leah...and it was NOT "pretend hair". My dilemma was that my poor daughter would wake up Christmas morning in hopes of getting her "pretend hair with curls" from Santa and being completely devastated that Santa did NOT bring her "pretend hair with curls" and therefore completely ruin Christmas and all future gift giving this holiday!
Luckily...Mema knew that Leah wanted "pretend hair" and proceeded to ask Reagan's mommy where she got it and bought Leah her wig. However...as we were not exchanging gifts w/Mema & Grandpa until after dinner on Christmas...I still had the dilemma of Leah being thoroughly devastated by Santa. So on Tuesday night-when Leah's uncle Mike & aunt Erica were in town and we exchanged gifts with them, Mema had asked (and was granted permission from mom) to give Leah 1 gift early. The wig...thereby eliminating all future disappointment in opening gifts that were not the "pretend hair". Mema saved the day!
After adding photos to our slideshow for Christmas-I think we probably have more video of Christmas than photos-at least that is what I'm hoping when I finally get around to converting the video to DVD!
Happy New Year all!
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