This Christmas the weather was great and no one was sick; at least not sick enough to prevent any festivities from happening. However, that being said our Christmas eve was a bit challenging - mostly due to my children. I won't dwell on it because as my mom, sister and I all agreed, it was an "off" year and we plan on tweeking things a bit for next year. See the picture above and how cooperative my children are being - NOT.
This picture is a good picture into how our evening went. My mom has a blank stare on her face - like can we get this evening over with? Jay and Luke are staring off into who knows where, Lauren has her eyes shut and Nick is just having his ADHD moment which was pretty much how he was all night long. Sigh.
The boys in their new jammies before bed on Christmas eve. Slowly but surely, Santa is becoming obsolete in our house. Jay no longer believes and I really don't think Nick does either but he appears to still be playing along. However, he refused to write a letter to Santa on Christmas eve which went right along with the mood he was in and no one asked to put out cookies for Santa. On Christmas morning, Santa got all four of us Harlem Globetrotter tickets and Jay had to comment that Santa uses the same wrapping paper as mom does. Usually I try to be more discreet but again, I could tell that Santa is starting to die his own death in our house. Does it make me sad? Not really. I'm usually ready to cross a bridge and move onto the next season.
Speaking of how things change....I remember many, many Christmases where Mike would spend the entire morning putting together toys but not this Christmas. The boys put together all of their own things. Nick got a new sled which Jay helped him put together. The big hits this year: Nick got a R/C helicopter from nana (which he loves), a circuit electronic things (from Nana) and his sled. Jay got a Galaxy Pad. It was so relaxing this year.
I remember past Christmases where it snowed (BAD) and Mike would spend an hour or so trying to put together toys (and never finishing in time before he had to move to the next job) then he'd have to plow the driveway so our family could get in, then he'd have to marinate the meat we were making. Then one Christmas our basement flooded. There have certainly been some stressful times but this year was not one of them.
Nick reading directions for one of his toys.
The Ausili's came over on Christmas day as did Mike's parents. For some reason I got a ton of picture of our dogs. They were in the thick of things (as usual) all day.
Our crazy Cole doesn't care how he gets petted, as long as someone is petting him. Check him out in the picture below. He cracks us up.
Curtis with his favorite girl, Copper. Copper loves to lay on the tile right in front of the fire.
A boy and his dog. Love.
It was a wonderful Christmas. The ages of the kids are: Jay: 12, Curtis: 12, Faith: 14, Nick: 8, Lauren: 7, Luke: 3. Although Christmas even didn't quite go as we had envisioned, we were all well, we were all together and really that's all that matters. Merry Christmas to all.
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