Christmas Day

We were up early….6:30am.  Faith and Wilson came in early to wake us up.  They waited a little while in bed with us but were not willing to wait very long.  They wanted to get their gifts.  Miller was still asleep so we told them that they could open their stocking and see what was in there first.  Tom told me that when he was little their stockings were hung on their door knobs Christmas morning and that they could open those up in their rooms.  At first I was not keen on this idea because it was not what we did, but this year I saw the value in it.  The kids can play in the rooms for another hour or so with the stuff in the their stockings and then they won’t wake us up as early.  Brilliant!!  Next year, the stockings are going on the door knobs.

A present tradition that I heard about and instituted last year was that the kids only get three gifts from us.  If Jesus only got three gifts, then they can get three gifts.  It really takes the pressure off of me and it makes everything very fair…at least for now.  Maybe when they get older it will change, but I doubt it.  I love that rule!  Faith even knows it well because yesterday she told me that she had four gifts….in my mind, one of them didn’t really count.

ANYWAY….we opened the stockings and waited for Miller to wake up.  He finally did and the present opening began.  Miller’s big gift was a play kitchen.  Faith got roller skates and drawing stencils.  Wilson got a toy gun and Star Wars sheets (they are really cool, for sheets).   By 9:00 my parents were over here with Grandmama and many more gifts.  Miller didn’t know what to do!!  The best part about living in Charlotte is that I have so much family living here.  After presents we all went over to Aunt Lisa’s house for breakfast.  We stayed there for over three hours and I think that they practically had to kick us out.

We finally got home to our mess of a house.  Paper and toys were everywhere.  It was a good mess though.  We all had a great day together:  playing, socializing, giving gifts.  At the end of the day Miller kept having me light a scented candle so that he could sing Happy Birthday to Jesus and then blow out the candles.  I wish I had gotten a picture of it.  Faith and Wilson even joined in for a few rounds.  Happy Birthday, Jesus!

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