Merry Christmas!!!! I had a lot of fun this holiday season of shopping and eating a lot of food. I wasn't here to help put up the decorations for Christmas, so I felt a little off. I did put up my ornaments though. I did a lot of the wrapping because I enjoy it and wanted to get it done.
On Christmas Eve, I was hustling and bustling to finish Hanna's gift. She wanted a new bed set, and I thought new pillows would be grand!! Everyone picked a pillow size and fabric that was "boho chic". Well not everyone had time to sew a pillow case so I took it upon me to make 5 envelope pillow cases. I got the job done, WITHOUT Hanna even knowing what was happening (she was stuck in her bedroom for 5 hours;) But I got the job done and they turned out soooo adorable!!
It's a tradition in our house to have pizza on Christmas Eve. Sometimes we make our own, we get Little Ceasers, or Daddy drives to Tennessee to buy Papa Murpheys pizza. So that's where he was all day on Christmas Eve. But he delivered....a lot of pizza.
Nathan started a new tradition this year of ugly sweaters. We each drew a name, then we would make an ugly sweater. I made Clarissa the best ugly sweater!!!
Our Christmas Eve agenda was:
-Eat a lot of pizza until you are stuffed
-Complain about being tired even though it's only 7:30 pm
-After parents finally come out of their room so we can open the sweaters and pjs from Grammy
-Everyone admiring the job well-done on Clarissa's sweater
-Leaving the house with no shoes, but blankets to look at Christmas lights
-Coming home and fighting to use the bathroom first.....using the threat "that if your not nice, Santa won't come"
-Everyone calms down so we can read from the Book of Mormon
-Grammy did a good job on pjs.....and off to bed we went
-Not planning to stay up forever
Hanna and I always sleep together on Christmas Eve. So naturally she wakes every 3 hours to see what time it was. But we finally all got up at 8 to begin our Christmas morning together. We always start with our stockings. And ornament, gold fish, an orange, and peanuts are the usual with a few added other gifts. There was wrapping paper and smiles every where. For the rest of the day it was laid back. Everyone enjoying MORE pizza and the Hobbit 2. It was a great Christmas.
But why was it a great Christmas? Yes there was gifts and food every where, but I know what it's all really about. Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior. He was born on that blessed day. Not in an Inn, but in a stable. Shephards were told of His birth and found Him wrapped in swaddling clothes lying in a manger. Wise Men still seek Him. He is a gift from God to all of us. He brought forth the Atonement. He is why we celebrate that joyous holiday.
