Christmas Tradition

 

Every year, (well every year since last year) we have a family tradition where we all get new “Christmas” pajamas.  We open our pajamas on Christmas Eve after we eat dinner and put them on and take a family photo in front of the Christmas tree.  Who doesn’t love to get new pajamas?  I especially like to get the kids matching pajamas, so much fun.  This year I managed to find matching penguin pajamas for Taylor, Christian, Luke, and Scott.  After we took the family photo, Scott read from the kids’ new Children’s Story Bible about the birth of Jesus.  We are so blessed with what the Lord continues do for us and our family.  Tonight as we were eating dinner I just kept looking at my 3 very beautiful and healthy children and felt so blessed and loved.  My thoughts and prayers are with all of our friends and family on this Christmas Eve.  God Bless!

Why is it that “the box” is what fascinates kids the most?

Last night we received our 2nd delivery of Christmas gifts for the day.  The second delivery was that of one very huge box complete with packing peanuts–loads of fun for very two active and excited kids.  Taylor and Christian with much excitement proceeded to take all of the gifts out of the big box, run down the hall to the family room where the Christmas Tree is and in an orderly fashion place the gifts underneath the tree.  You see they are skilled at this task by this time as they had done this task just hours before.  Christian was so excited and working so hard that his breathing became a bit labored.  I don’t know if it was from all the gifts he was carrying back and forth, or from trying to navigate his way down a hallway littered with toys, or from the prospect that at the end of all his hard work he would be able to play in that very gigantic box complete with packing peanuts!  Not to my surprise, once the job at hand was completed, Christian went down the hall back to the front door one last time and halled that very big box into the family room where we found him inside (how he got inside we do not know–except for Taylor’s confession of pushing him into the box).  Taylor then asked for help inside the box where they spent a good 20 minutes in pure bliss!  I remember those days as a child myself, the excitement of playing inside the box the gifts came in!  My parents often mused that they could have saved a lot of money by simply purchasing a plain old Big Brown Box.