This was a fabulous Christmas! No stress. No out-of-wack schedules. Heck, I didn't even try to make toffee this year, and I only made one batch of caramel. It was also kind of fun to get to set up our very own traditions. We still need a little work in that department, but at least now we have an idea of what is important to us and what we want to keep doing every year. And did I mention that the kids slept till 7 this morning?! Aaaahhhh, that was wonderful!
It was sweet to see Marian so excited about wrapping gifts for her siblings. She loved finding things for Callie and wrapping them up for her sister. That really melted my heart. Delaney caught on very quickly to the idea of things and she had a blast tearing into gifts. We like to take turns opening gifts so everyone can see, and the kids were great about that. It was cute to see them so excited about their own gifts and their siblings gifts.
Christmas makes me think about being a mother. Joshua was 3 1/2 months old at his first Christmas. I remember reading the Christmas story and really seeing it for the first time. As a brand new mom, I wondered how Mary must have felt, and how could she deal with this huge responsiility she had been given. And I realized, I had that same responsibility. I had been given a child of God to raise. My son was a child of God. I had been tasked with raising him, and teaching him. Wow. I remeber that feeling most strongly at Christmas, and I hope I am doing a good job. I hope I am treating my children as the special, wonderful spirits that they are. And I hope they know they are divine beings who I only get to boss around for mortality.
And on that note, here are some random shots of the loot-fest!
2 comments:
Nice! I concur with your comments about Christmas,Mary, and our children... Well said!
I think you are an AMAZING MOTHER!!! I hope that I'm just a smidge of a mother that you are. I worry every second that I'm not doing enough for Madison, reading enough, playing enough... you get the picture. You are a wonderful, strong, sweet, silly person and one heck of a friend! I hope you know you and your family are very special to me and Madison and we miss you all a lot. In fact at midnight last night(YES I KNOW!!! She would not go to bed and I would not resort to using benadryl as my sister suggested) Madison was on the pretend phone to Callie and was telling her all about Santa comming and was telling her that she was excited b/c she was at her Papa Dave's and Jo-Jo's w/ Mommy and how much she missed playing with her and whatnot. It was too cute, I'm hoping you all will comeback this way and we can see you all again. That Delaney is looking more like Dan everytime I see her, Marian-TOTALLY OF FOX BLOOD Looks like Grandpa;), Josh OH MY WORD what a little man you have and last but not least Callie if she is half as onry as Madison my deepest prayers & sympathies are with you. We hope all is well take care and e-mail me sometime and check out my new postings;)
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