Christmas Eve

The cutest little shepherd boy you have ever seen……IMG_1776

Faith as an angel in the play at the children’s service….

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Our family picture by the tree….

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My dad with all of the kids….

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Maddie and Faith…..

IMG_1797Christmas Eve doesn’t change much for us each year. Tom’s dad is in town with us for Christmas. We go to the 2:00pm Lovefeast service at Little Church. We always get our picture taken by the Christmas tree at church. My dad takes a picture with all of the kids. Tom is at the church almost all day, and the kids go to bed excited.

The difference this year is that we are pretending that Santa is real. I typically do not include Santa in the Christmas celebration. The kids know that he isn’t real and that he is just a pretend character like Cinderella or Buzz Lightyear. I can’t lie to them. I also don’t want them to think that God isn’t real either when they find out that Santa isn’t real. However, no matter how many times they ask, and I tell them, that Santa is not real, they want to believe it. So per request of the kids, we are putting reindeer food in the drive way and leaving cookies out for Santa. It is fun to pretend now that I know that it is all for fun and we are all pretending together.  We even watched the “Santa Tracker” on the internet to see if he was getting close to North Carolina.

Christmas Eve is exciting for everyone, kids and adults alike.  I am excited to give the gifts to the kids and they are excited to get the gifts.  At 10:00 tonight we had a couple of cars pull into the drive way so the adults could exchange the kids’ gifts.  I had the Youngs’ bikes hidden under my house and my parents had Miller’s play kitchen at theirs.  Everyone met in the driveway to get the gifts to the right house.  Even that was fun!!

We will see what tomorrow brings.


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