I LOVE this time of year! The nostalgia, the friendly strangers, clerks saying Merry Christmas, buying into the commercialism of it all, reading the Nativity from the Bible...it's all so magical! The kids wrote letters to Santa and have really been looking forward to Christmas this year. I just love being a Mom, it's so fun to re-live Christmas through my children. Hailey got emailed a video from Santa(made by her Grammy Jamison), and he told her she needed to be better about cleaning her room. She ran right upstairs to start cleaning her room before the video was even over. After all the pleas to Santa for a bike, Preston decided to change his tune and ask for the same thing. Although I was done with Christmas shopping, the thought of disappointing my little boy on Christmas was too much to bear and since I had Kohl's Cash from previous shopping, I decided to use it and order him a razor Jr. It was all worth it when he came down the stairs and exclaimed, "My bike!" Hailey on the other hand was not quite the reaction I was hoping for. She acted like she had done all that was required of her and therefore the bike was inevitably just going to be there! She did like the bell and since the weather wasn't too freezing and there was no snow, we took the kids out to ride their new bikes. Then it was off to visit families and then come home to work on the mess! I can't believe how much of a mess Christmas is! And then there's the arduous task of finding a place to put it all!
The day after our tree was taken down and all the decorations put away. We just don't have a ton of space for a tree and I was so sick of picking up the ornaments that the kids would take off and walk to another part of the house and deposit them everywhere! I found them in the kids room, the bathroom, the toy box, Hailey's doll house and even in my bed! I asked Hailey what her favorite part of Christmas was, thinking that it would be the gifts, or parties, or even that special visit from Santa on Christmas Eve, but no! She told me it was singing at Poppy Jamison's grave. She learned the new song "Christmas is coming the goose is getting fat..." and loves singing it. )apparently that was his favorite song.)
Hate to say I'm glad it's over, but I can wait another year for this to come around again! So glad it does come once a year!
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