Christmas Was...

Wonderful, stressful, full of excitement and cooled anger.  Flare ups happened and rages happened but overall I think it was a success!

Christmas Eve is spent at my sisters.  Always a wonderful night of being together with family and close friends, great food and a wonderful, joy filled atmosphere.  This year was even better for hubby and I as our little one was quite a bit better (read less amped up and less screaming) and hubby and I actually got to eat dinner together!  We also got to stay longer than just dinner and run!

Santa showed up this year at my sisters to all of the children's (big and small) delight!  The best part was watching the kids stand outside for quite some time and waiting to see Santa fly off the roof!  The question after about 20 minutes was "Is Santa's sleigh magic?  I couldn't see him fly away."  We all said yes and the matter was over for another year.

Hubby and I stayed for a little while longer and then took the boys home to bed.  We prepared for Santa at home and put the boys down for their sleep.
Hubby and I stayed up for a couple of hours more getting everything ready for Santa.

Christmas morning was wonderful!  Nana and Papa came over early to watch the children open their gifts and everyone had a good time.  The 3 year old was cooked after his stocking and we had to keep prodding him to open the rest of his gifts.  The 8 year old was tearing through his gifts.  He got so excited and almost forgot the rest of his gifts when he got the one toy gift he asked for.  It was a Ben 10 Alien Disc somethingorother!  But we got through everything.  The little one had a minor melt down half way through gift opening because he was just so tired.  But like I said, we got through.

The rest of the day went pretty well.  The 8 year old had to be timed out because he had a major melt down and tried to hurt his brother.  But we nipped that in the bud and made him understand that his anger was something he could deal with.  Deep breathing and sitting quietly for about 30 minutes (of his own timing) seemed to help him alot.  Christmas is an overwhelming day so we expected the outbursts.

Christmas Dinner was exquisite!  My hubby the chef (red seal) made the entire dinner and we all walked away over stuffed and had to wait a couple of hours to indulge in the home made pumpkin cheesecake, turtle pie, and apple pie.  Whoo!  I'm stuffed again just writing about it.  We had a couple of friends come over for dessert too and had a wonderful time with them until bed time.

Boxing Day we went shopping at our local Wal Mart and got started on next Christmas's shopping.  That's always fun.  Hopefully I won't forget where I put those presents by next year!

So now we're just relaxing until New Year's Eve.  We have a few friends coming over and we'll ring in the new year quietly playing games with family and friends.

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and from my family to yours, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Have a great day and God Bless you all!