I think I've finally done it- I may have figured out how to do Christmas! I'm only making a very few gifts, and those are for or with my girls. I have majorly minimized baking and candy-making, except what I can share making with the girls. We are staying home for Christmas, and while we will miss all of our family, we really needed to eliminate the stress of packing the car with presents and little girls. Santa is grateful, too. He's tired of reading the redirect notes to come find us somewhere else.
So that leaves us HOME this weekend with NOTHING that we have to do. Shopping is done, we aren't going anywhere and no-one's coming here! (Though like I said, we will miss our family! And we always welcome visitors!) And today was worth it. It was worth all of the "no"s, it was worth buying gifts instead of staying up nights to make them. This is exactly what I want to be doing... this year :)
Just because I want to remember today forever... I woke up an hour before anyone else, and read with a cup of coffee. Then Violet woke up, and we read for half an hour. Then Daphne woke up, and the three of us read for another half an hour. Yes, that's right, my day started with two hours of reading, half of that snuggling under a blanket and chit-chatting over stories with my favorite ladies. Then we woke Daddy, who took the girls out to play bubbles in the backyard while I made pumpkin pancakes. After breakfast, we cleaned out the garage, and sold our bunch of cardboard moving boxes for $20- they were gone within 90 minutes of being posted on Craigslist! Erik took a load to the Goodwill and picked up burritos for lunch, then cleaned the garage a little more while Violet and I went to get our hair cut. (Violet took it upon herself to cut her hair *for the very first time* last weekend, so we had to get it evened out). We came home, I made some popcorn mix for neighbor gifts, then we all got cleaned up and bundled up to go to dinner. We tried a Brazilian BBQ buffet which was fun, then we headed to Starbucks to get some hot chocolate to drink while we drove around looking for Xmas lights. And it was amazing! The girls BOTH loved it! Daphne kept saying "Moe, moe (more)!" I asked her what she wanted more of and she replied, "SAN-sa, peeese (Santa please)!" It was so cute- any time we were on a main road with no houses, she kept pleading for "Moe Sansa peeese!" And Violet decided that she wanted to see as many snowmen as possible, so they both had a favorite character to spot. It was just magical how they both ooohed and ahhhhhed at every light display, joyfully clapping and calling out, "Frosty! Sansa!" So magical that Daphne, who didn't nap today, stayed awake for the ENTIRE trip looking at lights. Amazing.
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