Day 20 Watched “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (cartoon version)
Day 21 Sing Christmas songs around the piano (the boys taught us their silly version of Jingle Bells)
Day 22 Christmas book
Day 23 Treat and read a book
Day 24 Stay up late, watch Christmas movies (It’s a Wonderful Life, Santa Claus is Coming to Town and Mr. Krueger’s Christmas) and sleep downstairs in the TV room (the boys, not us!)
Christmas day
The boys were bouncing around on the air mattresses downstairs around 6:45, so we decided to let them come up. The got to dump out their stockings first, and they found little boxes of cereal. They took them straight into the kitchen and ate breakfast. This is our ‘special’ Christmas breakfast (and lunch) making the morning relaxed for me.
Daniel passed out the presents from under the tree. The boys were excited with their gifts. No one was unhappy with what they got or jealous of what others got. We need to return a remote control car for Seth (it didn’t work at all).
We also had to return a bike that we bought for Seth, but he never knew about it. We didn’t get around to assembling it until Christmas Eve around 11 p.m. The back wheel that is pre-assembled, wasn’t even, so the chain would catch on it, making it difficult to pedal. I’ll get him a new one when it warms up. I took great pains to make sure that the boys all had the same number of presents to open, but he never noticed that he was one gift short of what the other boys got. Got to love that kid!
My parents and brother Dan came over around 11 and we visited for a while. My parents gave the boys robes. They wore those robes for hours that day. They wear them to breakfast in the mornings and use them before and after their baths. They are such soft robes, I want to get myself one!
Last night Daniel and I were sitting in the living room after dinner while the boys were playing downstairs. Daniel looked over at me and said that he was so use to doing something together as a family after dinner that it feels strange to be doing our own things.
I have loved our countdown and it makes me pretty happy that Daniel has enjoyed it too!
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