Here is the gang on Christmas morning. At our house, Santa doesn’t wrap the gifts from him he just lays them out so its the first thing you see when you wake up. He also fills your stocking and lays it under the tree. We had done that part and then taken a little break to wait on Grammy and Grandad to arrive so we could have a big country breakfast and then open the rest of the gifts. I was trying to think what my kids favorite gifts were but they were too excited about everything. A couple of things that stood out was a book from my Aunt Eileen, Foster stopped me and said “Mommy, I want to keep that book forever, I don’t want us to sell that one ok?” He is used to us having yard sales and me just “weeding out” in general. We can’t keep everything or we would be in chaos but apparently he wanted to make sure that I knew this book needed to stay around! So, kudos to Aunt Eileen for picking out a great book for our collection, that is her specialty after all. (= Another highlight was Katie and her Tinkerbell pj’s and robe she got from Grandad, she loves Tinkerbell things but I really think it was because it was from Grandad…One thing that I was excited about this year is we got more board games, puzzles, arts and crafts and play-doh than ever before. Also, NO video games or gameboys or nintendos or blah blah blah….I was relieved about that! And we only received a few things that take batteries so all in all it was exciting for the kids and not too painful for the parents! We had several traditions that we enjoyed this year but one we will add next year is a cake and singing “Happy Birthday” to Jesus. Our kids know what Christmas is really about but I would love to help them feel the joy of an actual birthday celebration for Baby Jesus.