Christmas!

Stuart and I live in a small home that Stuart remodeled in the first couple years of our marriage. We moved into it when Blaire was 9 months old. When I say small, I mean small. The house is about 950 square feet with 2 bedrooms. The house is adorable and Stuart worked so hard to bring it back from a very dilapidated state.

While my house is small, I do love it. However, I was wishing for a couple of hundred extra square feet over the holidays. But, we made due and enjoyed every minute of it. The kids all crashed in Blaire and Presleigh's room which was interesting at times and Jenna and Pobzeb slept on an air mattress in our living room. The kids wen to bed and the "adults" stayed up way to late playing games and watching movies. It really was a great time of fellowship.

As is tradition we let the kids open up a gift on Christmas Eve. Sheryl, my mother-in-law took care of this. All the kids got a gift to open and inside each present were the most adorable Christmas PJs for the kids to wear, with Santa socks and Santa hats. The kids loved them and you couldn't ask for cuter pictures. We dressed them in their pj's and sent them off to dream land so we could play Santa for the kids.

Of course, the kids woke us up the next morning. Well, I needed a shower and wanted to get semi ready for the day before we opened up gifts. So the kids were "locked" into the girls bedroom until we were ready for them to come out. It was fun really "torturing" them as we had been "tortured" as children eagerly anticipating the gifts that Santa had brought. Jenna and I reminisced briefly about sitting at the top of our stairs in our childhood home waiting for our parents to give us the OK to FINALLY go down to see what wonderful gifts Santa had brought us.

When we were ready, we let the kids out of the room, all of them clad in their matching pj's. They ran into the living room and were thrilled with their stocking stuffers and their Santa gifts. Blaire had been asking for a Jewelry box and of course Santa had come through.

I look forward to many more Christmas' such as this. It was wonderful to watch the kids experience the magic of Christmas and continue to learn about the reason for the season which is the birth of Christ!