Christmas

We went to church on Christmas Eve and did a reading for part of the lessons and carols service. We were so excited that our neighbors joined us. We enjoyed Christmas Eve appetizers with our friends from college who also live here and did a fun favorite things exchange among adults along with a kid exchange. The kids were very excited for Christmas! They set out cookies and carrots for Santa and his reindeer and tracked him on the google tracker. They actually went to bed relatively well and we watched our annual showing of Christmas Vacation after they went to bed. Christmas morning started at 7:30 with lots of shrills of excitement. They loved seeing ALL of the presents and were quite persistent in opening straight away but we held them off a bit with breakfast and stockings. Then the fun began and wrapping was everywhere. We spent the day relaxing at home and enjoyed steak and lobster dinner with another family. It was a lot of fun and the kids overall had a great time. I also started a kindness mission this year rather than elf on the shelf. Stuffies would give us kindness missions each day in December. At first Miss M was not a fan of it because she wanted presents and the elf on the shelf but eventually she looked forward to finding her mission for the day from Gary the Gift Giving Giraffe. We also read our advent every day and the big kids are old enough now to dialogue about it which was super fun. I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas.