We had a great Christmas this year. We had Christmas Day at my parents house. After opening pajamas Christmas Eve and gifts at our house in the morning we had the kids get ready and eat breakfast before making the drive to my parents house to open their last gift from us and their gifts from my parents.
They get 3 gifts each from us and this year we were all done shopping by the second week in December. It was great, I ordered everything online. Super simple and within budget! (kinda)
We had a Soup Christmas and it was yummy.
The kids were abundantly blessed by grandparents and auntie Andrea and Nik.
It was a wonderful, exhausting, yet wonderful day.
Merry Christmas.
(We did Hanukkah this year in which we got to discuss with the children a truely sacred tradition in which God provided for His people and prepared the way, restoring the Temple and setting about the Light. It really offered a great opportunity to make the holiday season about Jesus in a much more real way than his Birthday. We can't change that Christmas has pagan roots nor ignore the opportunity to discuss Jesus birth, create traditions, and make memories. I just know better now some of the truths of Christmas which make Hanukkah so much more meaningful and took the pressure off Christmas! It was a great December.)
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