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Sunday, December 26, 2010

And its over.....




And so it is over...all the preparation, all the shopping, all the anticipation...over in a couple hours.  Here is my accounting of Christmas activities in our house.

On Christmas eve, we went to the Christmas eve service at our church.  It was a lovely service filled with carols, special music and a great message. Then ended with all the candles being lit and singing Silent Night...that is my favorite part.  Then after service we went out looking for some Christmas lights.  We have done that every year but it was more difficult this year because we couldn't find a list of the best lights.  We did find some amazing displays and we found a ritzy area with some huge houses.

Christmas day activities started with the night before and explaining to the girls that no one could open stockings until everyone was up (unlike last year where one girl woke up at 3 am and opened her stocking and went back to bed).  Then we added that they couldn't wake us up before 6.  Well that wasn't an issue.  Tabitha came out of her room around 8 and then I woke up Tiana around 8:20 and the girls did stockings.  Typical things like slipper socks, pez dispensers, candy and DVD's and some cool Canada mittens for the girls.  Stockings are always fun.

After stockings we had breakfast, Wil made a variety of types of eggs, hashbrowns and peameal bacon.  Then it was time for the Christmas story.  I have to admit, it was the first time that I had to read it out loud.  I have been blessed to have had someone in my family read it at a family gathering every year of my life.  We read Luke at the Christmas eve service so I read Matthew.  Then it was on to gifts.
Then it was on to gifts....my whole focus this year was wrapping gift so that they were hard to guess.  This was mainly for Wil because he tends to guess every time but I carried it over to the girls.  So we had cash hidden in toilet paper and kleenex, and DVD's hidden in blankets and gift cards in large boxes of paper but there were two that I was most proud of.  I had 50 loonies(one dollar coins) to give Tiana and so I bought a bunch of bird seed and put it in a plastic bin and then she had to dig for the loonies.  It was hilarious although by about 45 she was not having quite as much fun.  The multiple textures of the birdseed made it difficult and the less there were the harder it was...she ended up having Wil help her pour it into another container while she sifted and the last one was at the end of the birdseed.  I had a smile on my face the whole time.  The other one was a sword that I bought Wil.  Well it is hard to wrap a sword without it being obvious.  So Tiana helped me and we wrapped styrofoam on each end and he couldn't figure it out...YAY!  We win..now the bar is set for next year.  

A few of the gifts:
Wil-he got a ninja sword, a Klingon "sword" and book on Canadian naval warships and some other fun things like a desktop curling game
Brenda-I got a bunch of Christmas DVDs, including White Christmas and It's a Wonderful life.  I got a computer record player that will transfer my albums to computer files and I got some purple thermal socks.
Tiana-a magnetic spiderman that she can hang from her ceiling, a spidey blanket, cash, some Jeff Dunham ornaments and a DVD
Tabitha-a pig that snores and wiggles his ears...she could not stop laughing...very funny.  She of course also got a ton of Twilight stuff, shirts, pillowcases and DVDs.
Family-we got a Wii game, Monopoly (classic version) somehow it was a game we didn't have and we bought rockband 3 a couple days ago so that by adding the keyboard all 4 of us can play an instrument.

It was a good morning.  Then on to dinner.

We decided to do a turducken this year...a chicken in a duck in a turkey.  It was something I had heard of and wanted to try so we did.  We ordered it from the local butcher and he did a great job.  It cooked a little quicker than we expected so we quickly started putting everything together.  We had the turducken, mashed potatoes, homemade cranberry sauce, corn and snap peas.  Everything was yummy.  The turducken was good.  It was hard to pick out the chicken from the turkey but the duck was very good.  The girls weren't too impressed...they didn't like the fattiness of the duck.  Oh well, more for us.  The gravy that it made was very tasty.  We didn't make a dessert because we had made spritz, chocolate chip and ginger snaps the day before.  Tiana had made fudge meltaways earlier in the week and our neighbors brought us a plate of goodies so we had plenty of sweets.

After dinner we had a friend of Tiana's unexpectedly join us so we all played Monopoly for awhile, then we tried to play rock band and then Tabitha went to watch her movie and Tiana and Andrew went for a dip in the hot tub.

That was pretty much it.  Today is Boxing Day so it is a huge shopping day in Canada so I think Wil and I are going to church and then go do some shopping.  Then we move on to taking Christmas decor down and working on cleaning out Tabitha's room to paint her room.

I hope you all had a Merry Christmas and we wish you a Happy New Year!  Love you all!

1 comment:

  1. Let Everyday Be Christmas
    by Norman W. Brooks

    Christmas is forever, not for just one day,
    for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
    like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf. The good you do for others is good you do yourself.

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