Christmas Day

I was so excited for Christmas morning that I myself didn’t sleep past 5:30. The kids woke up at 6:30 and I couldn’t wait to take them out and show them the tree. Micali first checked the plate of cookies and milk. She was thrilled that “santa” took time to write her a thank you note. We called each of our families on Skype and let them share in the fun of seeing the kids open a few presents. Micali didn’t really say much about her presents which surprised me. I thought she would be into a lot more. Eli was a little timid in tearing into the paper. He wanted someone else to do it but the when he didn’t have to touch the paper anymore he would get excited. He got a scooter from grandma and grandpa and just hugged it and said “love!” Abigail unwrapped a couple presents before Christmas and also pulled the tree over on herself a few times---I think she had been told “no” so many times that by the time we gave her presents to open she wasn’t sure what to do.

After our early morning waking and excitement we enjoyed a TWO HOUR family nap—we usually tried to have family naps every Sunday but, since August have had church from 12:30-3:30 so that schedule totally ruined that tradition.

Then we got up ready to make our Christmas day feast. We got the ham and apple pie and rolls all ready to put in the oven only to find out our oven no longer worked. Thanks to awesome neighbors we were able to call them and they graciously told us to just use their oven to bake our food. Luke just kept running across the street to check on the food and eventually we were able to enjoy a great meal just a little later than planned. This oven going out actually turned into a HUGE blessing/ Christmas present for me because, the oven was really old and the glass had started getting really HOT to touch like you could easily get burned if you touched the glass on the oven. With a crawler it scared me A LOT. Our landlord tried to get a part to get it fixed but it was the wrong part and finally on Friday after a week out an oven said we could just buy new one and he would pay us for it!! (with a 500 dollar limit) We found one on a great New Year sale and can’t wait to put it to use. My poor family couldn’t be more excited that I will be able to bake some homemade bread and other goodies. You don’t realize how much you use an oven until you don’t have one for two weeks.
 

 

 

Unfortunately there is no cute family picture of us together this Christmas! Definitely going to try to remember that for next year. We were on webcam and had the video camera going most of the time but I need to get more still shots in the future!