So today is the day after Christmas and we didn’t get up till eleven o’clock today, even the kids. That should tell you a lot since my kids are normally up at six, seven if your lucky every morning. Our Christmas was much better than I had expected.
Christmas eve was a long day. I spent the day baking and getting final stuff done for Christmas. Our tradition for Christmas eve is we go looking at Christmas lights and then they open one gift before bed. Well we get ready to go looking and its pouring. My defroster in my van is on the fritz so driving in the rain is not an option. So we didn’t get to go looking this year. I actually let the kids open 2 gifts this year. The little kids had pjs I wanted them to wear but the older kids didn’t. So I wanted the lil kids to have a toy to play with. Brayden opened his laptop which he loved until it didn’t work,even after we changed the batteries. So I must take that back. The kids refused to go to sleep once they were in bed. They didn’t go to sleep til 1 a.m.! I was so tired but had to wait to do Santa so I had to wait for them to go sleep. I finally got in bed at 2 and died when I went to sleep.
As soon as I was sleeping oh so good the alarm went off at six, only 4 hrs of sleep and I hear kids already, so I get up and the kids go nuts because Santa had come!! Well they begin checking things out and begin opening the rest of the gifts under the tree whn all of a sudden the tree comes crashing down!! All we could do was laugh!!!
We all hurried around and got dressed and rushed around so we could be out the door at 8. We had to be at breakfast at my grandmas by 9. The weather was crudy kind of misty and cold all the way there but there was no traffic . We arrived their on time and had an awesome time with family we don’t see often enough.
After leaving Grandmas we made the trek to go visit the husbands fam. We make awesome time getting there and even arrive early. We had dinner. After dinner we did our gift exchange, we pulled names at Thanksgiving so we would only have to buy one gift. I got some awesome perfume!! After we did ours the kids opened their gifts. They loved them! After the gifts the kids went upstairs and played ping pong and watched tv. The grown ups played a game and then played a game of BINGO. While we were playing Bingo time faded and the kids fell asleep.
We finally got them and all their stuff (or so we thought) together and drag them to the car crying and in a not so good mood. I am hoping we get home fast because its now almost midnight and I am oh so tired. Get on 59 and think heck yeah, we are almost there and then I see brake lights, not one or two but hundreds. Traffic is sitting still moving inches every ten mins. Turns out they had the entire freeway blocked off for an accident and were making everyone on the freeway exit onto the feeder. We sat in the freezing car (did mention I have no heat in my car) for an hour. While waiting I suddenly have to go pee like 10 mins into the wait. I turn on the radio so I can keep my mind off of having to go. So now I am bouncing up and down jamming to the radio, trying not to pee on myself and I am sure I looked like a fool but I don’t care. Brayden is laughing at me the whole time, I am sure there were others as well but I don’t care! So we finally exit the freeway and I find a bathroom and its so disgusting. SO then I find another restroom and think woohoo finally. Then I remember I am wearing my I-wanna-look thinner- girdle and think oh crap. So now I am doing the potty dance trying to get it off which I do, then I am like oh crap, I had to have help putting it on, how I am gonna put it back on. So I do the best I can and half assed pull it up, and I know the attendant at the station was like didn’t she look thinner when she came in? Anyways, so now I am off the freeway and not really sure where to go to get home. I do a few turnarounds and end up back at the freeway, which has all of a sudden opened back up. Now my little potty adventure and getting turned around was only maybe 10 mins. I was so mad!
Now finally back on the freeway and almost home. Exit freeway and literally 1 mile from my house and theres a train. I mean really! So I go another way to go around the train and we are finally home. I jump out to go unlock the door before the kids start whining and I am greeted by the smell of gas. Well, apparently I left the oven on this morning, yeah I am so freaking bright! I am sure the gas company is gonna love me! We get the kids in their pjs and they are quickly back to sleep. I fall into bed and I am gone! I slept so hard I didn’t even hear when the landlord came over. He said he knocked for a while and not a soul heard him. We were all so tired.
We had a great Christmas, long but great. I was afraid the kids were going to be disappointed by their gifts but they weren’t. They were only sad they didn’t get a puppy which is fine because I am working on that. They were excited they got to have three Christmas’s in one day. They had a great time with all the family. And they are even more excited to find out they get another Christmas next weekend with my mom and Danno. I will never forget this Christmas, even though no one got some fancy gizmo or expensive gift I think my kids understand that Christmas isn’t all about gifts, its about family. I wanna leave you with this an exact quote from my oldest, “Thanks Mom, we are so lucky we got to have 3 Christmas’s and see all our family in one day and even luckier we get to do it again with Nana. Because some kids don’t even get one Christmas. I love you, Mom.” ***I know you can’t see me but I am tearing up!!***
