We live a pretty quiet life around here. I feel like it was a very Christ centered Christmas. Since we have no family and hardly any friends we had no distractions at all. Some of my favorite things about this holiday season were:
• Reading stories by the Christmas tree – something about the lights is magical.
• The kids being excited about the advent calendar – although next year I’m simplifying it a bit.
• Not spending too much money – our kids got lots of 'boring' things they need and a little bit of 'fun' but they were so happy with it. It's nice they're young enough to be excited without breaking the bank.
• Siblings' exchange - this was the first year I had the girls spend their own money to buy each other gifts. It was so fun to see them doing extra jobs to earn the money and taking forever to pick out an item at the dollar store.
Here they are on Christmas Eve in their 'new' pajamas. They're holding up the gifts they got each other
On Christmas morning Sofia was pretty darn pleased with her pile of gifts!
Hannah was so excited to open gifts she could hardly sit still. She kept bouncing all around.
TJ seemed pretty pleased with his lone gift. We're just having a hard time making sure the hammer is only used with the toy.
As a funny side note...my older sister gave us this toy along with a bunch of other stuff when Hannah was born. It was almost 6 years ago, but I hung on to it figuring some day it would come in handy. It sure did!
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