A: A ridiculously long amount of time goes by and you are all saying, "What? Christmas was so last year." or B: I forget the details and have nothing Christmasy to blog about.
So... We did really have a wonderful Christmas, besides that fact that there was no snow, and I got to read on facebook what seemed like everyone else I know saying how great their White Christmases were. We did get snow the day after Christmas, which has stuck around, and it snowed again last night, and I've heard that the high is supposed to be in the teens on New Year's Day, so I guess Mother Nature and Jack frost are in cahoots to make up for the brown and green Christmas around here.
As I'm sure you can tell from my previous posts, Brennan loved everything about Christmas this year. Our Christmas Eve festivities were no exception.
He was very diligent about putting the reindeer food in the front yard just right.
And he insisted that Santa needed to have three cookies.
When Christmas morning came, all the presents were fair game. I think he helped open every one.
After all the presents were open we ate a big breakfast. Quiche and cinnamon rolls, yum, yum! The rest of the day kind of followed suit; we ate plenty of cookies, cheese ball and crackers, ham, mashed potatoes, corn, homemade mac and cheese, deviled eggs, apple pie, and some candy and hot chocolate thrown in for good measure. Since it was just the three of us, we had plenty of food to spare. This will be the first night we have something different for supper. We've been living on the leftovers! (We're having lasagna tonight. I just thought you might want to know that.) : )
There were so many new things around that Brennan didn't realize that the stockings were full, too, until sometime around lunch time. It was fun having a second round of presents.
Aside from all the eating and playing with our new toys, we spent the rest of the day watching Christmas movies. There also might have been a nap or two, and not only by this pooped puppy.
The last couple days we've been taking down the Christmas decorations and putting the house back together. We even got adventurous and rearranged the living room furniture.
As far as Christmas decor goes, the tree came down none too soon. The night before it got disassembled, these shenanigans began.
It all started when Brennan's new bowling ball rolled under the tree and he asked Jason to help him get it. Before the night was over Brennan was throwing his ball under the tree on purpose, and the space under the tree limbs became the official boy's clubhouse. Somewhere along the way Brennan has learned the phrases "low crawl," "move, move, move," and "keep your butt down." Do you think it had anything to do with the G.I. Joe movie we were watching? Since the tree is gone, I've been tasked to sew a clubhouse tent to fit over the dining room table. Oh, the projects of a boy's mommy. (And the wife of a man who loves G.I Joe and Indiana Jones.)
So that pretty much catches us up to today. Right now we're just relaxing on the couch and trying to stay warm.
Oh, and of course, we're watching an Indiana Jones movie. I feel a movie marathon in the making. : )
Until next year...
Hugs,
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