Every year just gets better and better. Every year that the kids get older and more aware of the holidays and what they mean, the happier I am, and the more thankful I am to just have them around me for the holidays. I'm so content with my own little family., it's so exciting to discover fun new traditions every year.
Christmas eve, we went to church early in the day b/c it was a Sunday at my brother's church. It was a very small crowd and a nice service. Then afterwards we grabbed some lunch and headed home. We lounged around all afternoon and then got some take out in the evening. I had the scariest feeling that when Josh and Trevor went to pick it up that they would get into a car accident or something and never be home for Christmas. I couldn't imagine my life without them, what it would be like to not have them here for one more Christmas. I was eternally grateful when they walked through that door. After dinner the kids opened up their new PJ's and books for the night. Then Trevor went to spread his reindeer food on the lawn and had to sprinke some on every rock outside. It was so cute. Breanna went to bed straight after books, but Trevor stayed up to watch the Polar Express. After the movie, TRevor set out some milk and cookies for Santa and ran up to bed, I think he fell asleep in no less than one second.
Christmas morning we took very slow. We opened each and every gift one at a time, put it together and played with it for a little while. I think it made the kids a little more thankful for the things they got instead of just tearing into a pile of presents. We didn't finish opening until around 1 pm. We had my favorite Christmas breakfast that I had always had as a kid--Eggs, grits, ans cinnamon rolls. Yummy! Trevor's favorite gifts were a lego set-Star Wars X-wing fighter, a spiderman dress up suit and a Buzz Lightyear space ship. Breanna loved her stuffed dog and set of wooden blocks. My favorite gift that I gave was a DVD to DH of pics of him and the kids together over the years. We both sat and watched it and bawled our eyes out. It meant so much to him.
After we were done, we packed up and headed up to my parents for dinner and then to spend the night. We had a really nice dinner together, and besides the kids being totally overdone, it was a nice time. WE watched a movie and Breanna fell asleep on the floor next to the dog.
As I look back on this last year and forward to the next, I wonder what my life will be like next Christmas--even more magical I suppose. I'm just so thankful for getting to spend one more Christmas with the most important people to me. With the coming of the next year, I'm anxiously awaiting this new arrival--Will I be able to handle 3 kids? My resoultion will have to be to let more things go--my house will never be perfectly clean, and my kids memories will not be perfectly scrapbooked all the time. I will take tons of pictures, and vow to do the best I can in all that I do. I want my kids to know who I am, and how much I love them. If I accomplish that, I have succeded at being the best mom I can be. Happy new Year all! Thanks for reading!
