As always, we started our Christmas Eve traditions with Chad sharing the story of the first Christmas. The incite that the kids bring grows each year and I always look forward to what they are going to say about that special story of the birth of the Christ child.
Then for fun we always read "The Night Before Christmas". Why it captivates us year after year is something I'm not even going to mess with!
In past years the kids would exchange gifts, but this year they got Christmas pajamas from mom and dad. Its something we started last year with the Polar Express, that I think is now to be an established tradition.
Christmas morning we wake the kids up (yes I know totally reverse of everyone else's house...). Take the picture of everyone waiting in the hall, and then let the shower of paper begin. There is screaming and "Thank You's" when the dust settles, everyone is happy ( I know, a small miracle!) And we get ready for round two...
Out the door we go and off to Gilbert. (sing with me)"Through the construction and down the road to Grammy and Umpa's we go..."
We arrive. Hug and visit. Then, have a wonderful breakfast with the highly acclaimed, CREAM CHEESE ROLL-UPS. If you don't know what that is, my friend, you live a deprived existence!
We organize the gifts and then, from youngest to oldest, it begins again. Now some think this has changed over the years, but its pretty consistent. A little twist that isn't to every one's benefit, sorry Tara and Riley, is that the spouses are stuck with their Roussel counterpart's age to determine their order of unveiling....
We love to see others faces as they are opening gifts picked out just for them. That is definitely one of the highlights for me anyways...
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!!!
1 comment:
Aubrey I am so glad to hear that I am not the only insane one to WAKE Up my kids to open gifts and then make them wait to take their picture. I have to let Steven know that I am not the only weird one. Thanks for making my day!
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