Christmas 2015

I was telling the husband this week that this year was one of our best Christmases yet, and we have had a lot of great Christmases together. We had such a fabulous day as a family. The only thing we did not get to do is take the kids out to a nice dinner. We are wanting to expose our children slowly to fine dining and allow them to get dressed up and have a nice meal and try to practice some manners. We were going to do that this year before our Christmas service at church, but everything was booked by the time we thought of it. We have been talking about traditions and how we do not feel like we have that many because we have lived a transient life so far. We took them out this year to buy an ornament. We thought we would do that each year for them and when they leave the house they can take the ornaments with them. Next year we will implement the fancy dinner. This year we had a very lazy day. We thought they would sleep in after a late night on Christmas Eve, but we heard exciting shrieks around 7:30 AM. We let them open stockings first and play while Mama fixed a large breakfast of eggs, pancakes, bacon, fruit salad, and rice for the husband. Then we slowly opened presents, played with presents, opened more presents, skyped with family. Our skype call with the TN/Arkansas family ended up in a nerf gun battle through the TV between the K Man and his cousin. I think by 4:00 we finally took showers and got ready for our Christmas service at church. It was a great day and we really enjoyed one another.