Our Christmas

Christmas has come and gone...
We spent Christmas Eve with our church family. Matthew was part of the big Christmas special... he sang and played his many instrumetns.

My parents had said they were coming over Christmas morning to watch the kids open presents. She said they'd be here between 7:30 and 8am which is when my kids normally wake up. At 5:45 Darcy came into our room but she laid back done and eventually went back to sleep. At 6:45 my phone rang and it was my mom. She said they were getting off the exit. I was half asleep and asked her if she said she was getting on the exit or off the exit. She giggled and said "OFF the exit... we'll be there in about 5 minutes." I had to wake everyone up! Jessica suggested I tell them to wait on the couch till the kids woke up on their own LOL. We opened presents and everyone seemed happy but this momma felt like it was a pretty bare christmas. Once the kids went to their rooms to play with their new toys I turned to my parents and began crying. I told them how grateful I was for the many of Christmas' that they had done whatever they could to put presents under the tree. I said some other things but you get the point. Looking back I realize how stressful things had to be for my parents at times. I'm an adult now - a parent- and its an eye opening experience. I look at things through a different lens.

My sister and her family joined us around lunchtime for Christmas dinner. We exchanged gifts and played games till it was time for us to go to the Brock house for Christmas.

The kids racked up. Jessica got a bunch of money and gift cards so the day after Christmas we (along with Heather) went shopping. She got a lot of cute things. We had fun shopping.