We enjoyed spending Christmas with my parents. My sister and her family came for a few days and we all decided to open presents a day early. We asked the older children if they minded and of course they loved the idea. 🙂 So we went ahead and let them open there Christmas Eve pajamas a night early.
My mom, Scott, and I stayed up ’til 3 a.m. wrapping, putting together, and organizing presents. Then we were awakened by our early-bird brother-in-law at around 7 or 8 with great desire to get the show on the road.
We tried to keep things pretty simple for the kids this Christmas. We got the oldest two skateboards, the next two skooters, and the youngest we gave a basketball goal. They all loved their gifts. We let each of the kids draw each others names and we took them to the store earlier in the week to buy gifts for the name they drew. The girls had drawn the boys names and the boys drew the girls names. They all did a good job picking out appropriate gifts for their siblings.
My sister’s family gave us a tabletop game that the kids will enjoy.
My parents gave Scott a really huge knife. He says it makes him feel like a kid again. I bet he’ll be sawing down a small tree with it before long. They also gave him a salsa mix which he will enjoy. I gave him a giant print preaching Bible, which he loves. He shouldn’t have to get so close to his Bible when he is preaching now. I also got him his first bifold wallet which is less bulky than his trifold.
My parents gave me a set of Tupperware plates which will help a lot with serving the kids. They tend to break glass products so I’m really happy with the Tupperware. It also brings me back to childhood and the plates we used to have.
I am looking forward to reading the new books they gave me. I love to read. Then there is the new calendars that both my mom and my sister gave me. I can hardly believe that the year is that close to an end again.
And my sweet husband, after a week of throwing out hints of what he got me, presented me with this new tablet which should remove all my excuses for not blogging as often.
This is my first post from my new blogger app. It may not be pretty yet, but I’ll try to get all the bugs worked out. 🙂
