Christmas morning came with the excitement it always does when you have kids. Thankfully, they sleep in now until nearly 8AM. I had made a couple of overnight breakfast recipes that just needed to be popped in the oven so I made some coffee, put the two dishes in the oven and then we sat down to open "Santa" gifts and stockings even though neither of them believe anymore.
Normally I'm pretty good about cleaning up the mayhem that transcends a room after opening so many gifts but for some reason I just let it go. We sat down among the already very messy living room and opened more gifts. A lot of the gifts were things that Marty brought back from Seattle. Things we had to leave because our first move here was just for one year and many things we could do without for just one year. One year turned into two and those things - many birthday and Christmas gifts from past years- were just sitting in our basement. It was the very best of re-gifting.
One of the gifts the kids received was a gift certificate for a "family pack" at the movies. Normally I never buy movie snacks. I make way better popcorn, I personally don't like the theater popcorn (way too salty) and who really needs a HUGE soda. The family pack is for 4 movie tickets, 4 bags of popcorn and 4 sodas. The kids like the snacks as much, if not more, than the movie. So on Christmas day, without any other plans, we decided to head into town and redeem their movie gift. We got the family pack and the kids were thrilled. We saw Mary Poppins and it was really a nice change to watch a wholesome, lighthearted, fantastical movie.
The next day we were invited to our friend Juli and Luke's for Boxing Day or as the Germans refer to it "Second Christmas" Josie was feeling sick all morning and into the afternoon. She slept on the couch for hours and by the time it was ready to leave we decided she should just stay home.
Juli made a delicious ham with potatoes and fancy dessert. All the comforts of a gourmet meal that I don't have time or energy for. So good.
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Just missing Maya (who was under the table) and
Josie who was home sick. |
Along with Juli, Luke and their boys there was also our friends Anja and Kyle (the 6 of us adults are part of a Supper Club but we are all so busy we don't get out as much as we would all like) Also Anja's mom and dad were there visiting for the Holidays from London. Such a VERY nice and fulfilling (in every way) 1st and 2nd Christmas.
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