Christmas

Christmas is by far my favorite time of the year. Everyone for the most part is jolly and in good spirits. I love entertaining and having company and the house just feels warmer all around. Having three boys made it that much more fun! I am a big fan of traditions so we continued a few things we have started and made a few new along the way. Leading up to Christmas day, Jon and I like to teach Jake about Jesus's birth and focus our bible time with him more on that special day. We also enjoy Santa and his generous spirit and the way he too can help us celebrate! This year I showed Jake a Veggie Tales movie on the true story of St. Nicholas. It was wonderful and we both really enjoyed. Hoping to make that a new tradition as Will and Kevin get older and understand more. We used our advent calendar which Jake was really into this year. Had breakfast with Santa and Poppel. Jake and his cousins went to their annual movie day with Mommel. We attended Christmas Eve service, left out cookies and carrots for Santa and his reindeer and wrapped the doorways to our family room so we could burst through on Christmas morning. My personal favorite. This year was the first year we started sharing Christmas with both sides of the family. Up until this year we have rotated holidays. Last year, we did Thanksgiving in New Jersey and were scheduled for Christmas in Baltimore. Then, Will arrived!!! This year we tried something new that we would like to do each year from now on. We did Christmas Eve here with Jon's side of the family and early Christmas morning here as our little fam then headed down to Baltimore afterwards. It worked out really nicely. We spent all of Christmas day and night there then headed home. We were all tired, but it was worth it to celebrate with everyone we love!