Christmas is over! But we are in full swing of vacation until January 5th and I'm excited for sleeping in, extra relaxing time and being home with my family.
The in-laws came over on Christmas Eve and I made lasagna and we exchanged gifts. They joined us for our church's candlelight service. My son played trumpet in the orchestra and even got a solo. He did amazing. I used to feel bad about not making it to Long Island for my sister's Christmas Eve party with my extended family but over the last few years I'm quite content with being at home and I'd much prefer spending the night before Christmas at church celebrating the One who came to earth as a baby to save us from our sins.
After the kids went to bed I rushed to finish all of the wrapping and set the gifts under the tree. We slept in on Christmas Day, which is different from how we used to get woken up really early by eager small children. Now that they are older they don't seem as impatient to rip through everything under the tree. It's also become a bit more difficult figuring out what to buy them now that they are in the teen/young adult ages but they seemed happy with what they got.
And Brooke was spoiled, too!
My parents came in the afternoon and sat through the Commanders/Cowboys game the guys insisted on watching and I made a nice ham dinner. My daughter has been fighting sickness ... again ... so she tried to keep her distance.
Today my son worked and when he got home they turned on the next new episodes of Stranger Things.
Christmas seems to come by so quickly and I never feel ready for it until it's over. Every year I say the same thing and I'm going to say it again - next year I'm going to be intentional about starting and finishing the shopping early, take more time to bake cookies and all the festive things, and just not wait until the night before to get everything wrapped. Next Christmas will be back again and it will arrive quickly because time seems to be moving faster now than it ever did.
I hope your Christmas was special and filled with love and joy!
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