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‘Twas the Night Before BenSparkmas

Eva and the Nativity
Photo-A-Day #4274

On the day of Christmas Eve we were finishing up our last minute decorations, making cookies for Santa and chicken stew for the family dinner. The kids got to decorate their individual trees. They each have a mini tree that we put on a chest upstairs in the landing between all the bedrooms. Each year we get the kids a special ornament for their own trees. this year Eva got a ballerina Barbie and Andrew a Finding Dory one, that speaks. I kinda wish that they didn’t notice that their ornaments made any noise, because they insisted on my putting in the batteries. Andrew has a limit of pushing the button once a day. He only missed that by 8,999 pushes.

We then went to 4pm Mass. Andrew fell asleep on me for most of the ceremony. Then we woke up and was very groggy. He refused to have his photo taken at the Nativity Scene this year. That is too bad because we have photos of the kids in front of that from each year. I would have liked to have both kids in the photo but it makes no sense to try and make the kid take a photo.

After Mass we had the family over for Chicken stew. Allison made a double batch this year. We had to use two crock pots. Allison also made Chocolate Crinkles and they were delicious. Santa is going to get some incredible cookies tonight.

And now we are watching A Christmas Story and Christmas Vacation. That and A Charlie Brown Christmas earlier tonight and we hit all the major Christmas movies that we love. Get some rest everyone and have a fantastic Christmas tomorrow.

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Time to put up the Mini Trees


Photo-A-Day #2812

The family tradition of tiny personal trees for the kids continues. Eva and Andrew each have a tree of their own and if they had enough room in their rooms then the trees would be there but for now the trees are in the second floor landing. I love having them there because we can all enjoy them as a family.

We decorated the trees tonight. Andrew enjoyed playing with the shatterproof decorations. Eva loved putting on all of her special ornaments from over the years. Each year we buy the kids one new ornament for their trees and we buy a family one that we can place a photo inside of. Eva got a Pocahontas one and Andrew a Snoopy one. We’ve been doing this for a few years and are starting to amass a decent collection of family photos on the tree. I really love doing that.

Tonight I started reading Eva the book Superfudge. The two of us were laughing really hard at it. Poor Allison was contending with a tough little customer in Andrew. He just would not give up and go to sleep. Eventually he did go but he is one stubborn kid when he doesn’t want to go down to sleep.