There is always so much going on in December and once the month is over I seem to forget most of it. It was a busy month … Kevin was gone, Billy had a recital, we saw Christmas lights and Santa parading through our neighborhood. There were quiet moments at home watching Christmas movies and eating Christmas goodies.
A lot of my Christmas decorations are children’s toys. By design. I have no desire to spend my holidays guarding things or constantly saying, “No!” so I decorate with Fisher Price. I do have a few special things that I just put up where they can’t be reached and we put a gate around the main tree so that Bobby (and the cats) can’t undecorate it so easily! But, for the most part, my decor is playable and play the boys do!
Bobby enjoys cars. None of the others “vroom vroom”-ed cars this little. He took the Mickey Tour Bus to see the Christmas decor … Next stop, the nativity scene.
The Sunday before Christmas, one of the speakers shared a story she’d read about a little boy who rearranged his mom’s special nativity scene so that all the pieces could see the Baby Jesus. That night I saw Billy rearranging ours and had to stop myself from telling him to leave it alone. He was just making sure everyone could see the Baby Jesus.
The boys’ classes at school all did fun stuff for Christmas – art projects and parties galore. One day Tommy came home from preschool looking a bit different. He told us it was Elf Day (that hat came complete with pointed ears).
The Saturday before Christmas we had my whole family (minus Melissa who is currently living in Australia – Hi, Melissa!) over for the Olds Family Christmas Party. We were too busy having fun to get very many pictures this year but here is my mom with her great-granddaughter, Audrey …
We exchanged gifts … (I have NO idea what that random purple circle is. Aliens?)
And this year we added a ring-the-bells sing-a-long (gotta admit, I was a bit surprised at how much everyone seemed to enjoy it – it may become a tradition!) …
And there was, of course, the acting out of the nativity. I didn’t get any good pictures because I was behind the scenes directing and Kevin didn’t get me any really good pictures because he was video taping it for me. However, our camcorder randomly snaps stills as it is recording, so here are a couple of those that it captured.
Three randomly costumed angels singing to the shepherds …
And the shepherds and wise men honoring the baby with Mary and Joseph …
The best part of the party is just having family around.
And that Bobby didn’t scream and cry whenever someone looked at him. That was pretty cool, too.
