Merry Christmas To All!

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas! We certainly did around here. We spent Christmas Eve day at home decorating cookies. It was kind of funny because I was talking to Beau about how we were decorating cookies for Santa. His response was "Mom, we can't give them all to Santa!" Now if you know Beau you are probably thinking the same thing I was at the time...that he wanted to make sure he got his fill of cookies too! Well, he surprised me. When I asked "why not?" He goes "because, we have to save some for Jesus...it's HIS birthday!" Oh so true, from the innocent little mouth of a 3 year old.

One of my favorite memories from this Christmas morning was when we all went downstairs to check out what Santa brought. All the presents and toys didn't phase Cora...the first thing she spotted was that Santa had left cookie crumbs on his plate, and it was well within her reach! She boogied over there and plopped herself down gobbling cookie crumbs left and right. Nothing else stood a chance of grabbing her attention!

Beau on the other hand was VERY excited about all of the presents. Although this year he was much more excited about the fact that there were presents and the act of opening them, and much less interested in what was actually INSIDE the presents. I think he would have been happy opening one empty box after another!

We spent Christmas day at home, just the four of us. And after the past few crazy weeks I was very thankful that we did. It was nice to spend Christmas day relaxing, recharging, and focusing on the kids.

Now on to the New Year!

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