Christmas Day

When the morning arrived on the Christmas Day, the clock was pointing at 7:13 am.  Sean dashed to the bathroom as usual slamming the toilet seat up in heist.  I was impressed that he didn't wake up at 6 am like he usually does on the Christmas Day.  Sean then woke his sisters up and they rushed downstairs to look at the presents.  We didn't pull out the wrapped presents until the night before the big day since we know they would never make it unopened.  They stood in front of the wrapped presents for a while admiring them and soon counting who has the most presents.  Noah woke up next and went straight to his breakfast chair after changing.  He is the wrapper ripper we were trying to contain.  The kids ate their breakfast and brushed their teeth very fast.  When Nana came over at 9:00 am, they were ready to open and we began what we hoped to be a morning long ritual (but only took less than 40 mins to open all of them). 

The girls got their favorite girlie dolls and things, Sean got his boy toys and craft things he asked for, and Noah received some educational toys and a giant Spider Man which he doesn't seem to like so much.  They each got a Dream Light pillow pet from grandma, too.  Santa gave me a nice pressure cooker and several cooking gadgets.  Perfect since I burned my old pressure cooker.  Santa gave Mike a smoker vault which he has been using ever since to smoke up some fish and meats.  Nana was happy to get a new tablet from Santa and couldn't stop smiling. 

We had a nice dinner, cedar plank baked steal head, green beans with bacon and mushrooms, and green salad with eggs.  The steal head was drizzled with miso and mayo sauce and it was very yummy.  Sean even gobbled it up and we all ate well.

It was a good Christmas, but we missed my Mom, grandma.  My family is going to visit Indonesia at the end of the year, so my Mom could not come this Holiday.  Kids all said "where is Grandma?" as she has bee our staple during the winter break.  Aly especially misses her but she was ok with it when I told her grandma is coming in March.  "Is March the day after tomorrow?", she asked.  The concept of days and months are still a bit hard for her. 

It was a nice mellow Christmas, a kind that I could have spent all day in my PJ (but I didn't).  The children were sad that the Christmas is over now and in a way it seems the days leading up to is equally fun.  Now I am getting ready for the New Year and will be cleaning my house all day tomorrow.  We hope you had a nice Christmas, too!