Merry Christmas!
Dec. 25th, 2008 10:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beth_leonardWe have just finished up a very merry Christmas day. Several years ago a friend pointed out that it's much better to have the 2 year old who gets lost in the joy of one toy before moving on to the next one, than a child who goes "rip, rip, rip, open, open, open, 'Is that all?'"
We let the kids play with each thing before moving on to the next one this morning, but that did make it hard to get to church on time (10am). One thing that helped was that I got Peter a better pair of child sized scissors. Then the process of opening the rest of his gifts was also a process of playing with that one, and it did speed up a little.
After church my parents came and we exchanged gifts with them (we'd done it with Jon's parents yesterday) then everyone (my parents, Jon's parents, my uncle, Jon's aunt, Jon's cousin, and Jon's brother) came over to our house for a big dinner/lunch of soup, salad, green beans, rolls, candied yams, and ham on the fancy china. I love to give a fancy meal at least once a year. I missed a year when Amber was little but I was glad to do it today. It helps a lot to have family members who brought all the side dishes and helped wash the dishes.
After dinner we celebrated Peter's birthday with more presents followed by an ice cream cake in Peter's favorite flavor -- wild n' reckless.
Now it's time for one more blog post (Peter is 4!) and then shower and bed.
Love,
--Beth
We let the kids play with each thing before moving on to the next one this morning, but that did make it hard to get to church on time (10am). One thing that helped was that I got Peter a better pair of child sized scissors. Then the process of opening the rest of his gifts was also a process of playing with that one, and it did speed up a little.
After church my parents came and we exchanged gifts with them (we'd done it with Jon's parents yesterday) then everyone (my parents, Jon's parents, my uncle, Jon's aunt, Jon's cousin, and Jon's brother) came over to our house for a big dinner/lunch of soup, salad, green beans, rolls, candied yams, and ham on the fancy china. I love to give a fancy meal at least once a year. I missed a year when Amber was little but I was glad to do it today. It helps a lot to have family members who brought all the side dishes and helped wash the dishes.
After dinner we celebrated Peter's birthday with more presents followed by an ice cream cake in Peter's favorite flavor -- wild n' reckless.
Now it's time for one more blog post (Peter is 4!) and then shower and bed.
Love,
--Beth
