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Sat, 26 Dec 2009

We had a quiet Christmas around here, but it was nice. We had a "sometimes traditional, depending how we feel" dinner beside the Christmas tree.

We opened the traditional present-the-night-before. Surprise, pajamas all around (again.)

And watched Christmas movies until late. The kids didn't go to bed until after midnight and Marc and I after that. But we got a few hours sleep. Our kids, who used to sleep in on Christmas morning, were up by five. They let us "sleep" until six. We got up and looked to see what Santa had brought. Santa seems to be getting forgetful, because he brought a couple of the exact same things as last year. Maybe he should keep a list. Maybe his elves are slacking on the job. 

Then we ate traditional quiche on the traditional Christmas plates.  Oh, and drank traditional eggnog out of the traditional mugs. (See a pattern here?)

Then we opened presents. This is the first Christmas ever for our kids when Lego did not arrive under our tree. Wow. I think the kids were happy anyway. Maybe we needed more construction toys because the tree tried to fall down when the presents were removed. So, we've got another Christmas clean-up chore of trying to fix the stand on the tree, which seems to have broken, Or maybe we'll get a pre-lit tree. But we like our traditional tree. It was pretty this year. 

I didn't mention the weather. It had been raining for a couple of days before Christmas, and we woke to rain, but by about eight it started snowing. It wasn't a lot of snow, but enough to have a white Christmas. Very nice. In this picture, Bryan is outside for his "traditional" barefoot run in the snow. Crazy kid! Melody is wearing a new Christmas scarf from Grandma and a DuBray hoodie that was her gift to wear because she lost the other one. Melody's friend, Alysha, is wearing the scarf the Melody and I made for her.

Melody and Thomas played with their friends, while the rest of us relaxed and tinkered with new toys. In the afternoon, our neighbors came over and we had dinner together. Then games and dessert and visiting. 

I think I forgot to mention the cooking of goodies that we did before Christmas. Besides cheesecakes for teachers and friends, we also baked cookies to give away. One night we worked on this together. It was fun. And here we are.

Merry Christmas to all. We love you!