Soooo not my kind! But it was free and kids got to decorate it.
"It's just one year, don't look. Kids love it. Deep breath. I survive." were some of the thoughts that flew in and out of my mind. And guess, what? I did survive. We had good Christmas regardless of what the tree looked like.
People here are very big on giving cards, which I think is awesome. Our kids got over 30 cards from their school...it was kind of crazy! The first card that Drew brought home was from a girl and he was all embarrassed that it said "love" I could tell that it made our kids feel loved by their class mates. We should write cards more often to each other, that personal hand writing does something to your heart, doesn't it!
I have bakes 17 of this beauties! I don't know how bakery people do it? It took me all day.
But it was so worth it. All the kind people who has been so nice to us got this scramtiousnes.
It is an apple bread, but they all here call it apple cake. Whatever, cake it is!
The next day Troy and the girls took a lot of it to people all over Bromley area. They were gone for almost 6 hrs. Thank you babe for doing it!
Kids decided to have sleep over party for the week of Christmas. They brought all the mattresses into one room and even little Ryder got to snuggle in a little. This are the things that I know kids will remember. I worry a lot about all the "perfections" of life, but it really boils down to this...simple... time together. I'm so grateful I have Troy who reminds me of it on the daily basis. And who also always remembers to take a picture.
Ryder absolutely LOVED it! He felt like he was part of the gang, all so grown up and such!
Christmas eve....new pj's! They begged me and begged me to open their pj's at like 5pm! Crazy kids....I lasted till 6.30. They actually set the timer on and counted down the last minute.Who knew they would be so excited about new pjs'?
Now, this kid, didn't want any pj's. He was just happy the way he was!
And our little monkey had learn how to say " Ho,ho,ho! " Its the cutest thing ever! He gets his face really into it.
Ryder is excited that Santa brought him toys.
Next to our house we have a cute retired couple that are so kind to us. They have invited us to come over for a "drink" around Christmas time. After us not showing up....well, the date and time wasn't exactly set up...so it's not like we really didn't show up. At any rate, David came over (or call on us, as they would say here) and said: "Hey, beautiful people, will you come for a drink tomorrow at 2?" We were delighted to be called beautiful, but had to let him know that we don't drink alcohol. He was ok with that. I don't think they would of serve alcohol to us anyway. Who drinks at 2 pm? And they just didn't seem the kind that would anyways. They served some fun and testy finger foods. We talked a lot and found out they used to be teachers, so they miss kids. They were really good with our kids, I would trust them to watch'em if we ever would dare to inflict that on them. Sometimes we will have to take a picture of them to remember them. But for now just the kiddos on their way to Dave and Heather's house.
In over all, we had good Christmas! We missed our family and friends a lot. I think Holidays are the hardest to be a way from your family, but we had each other and counted our many blessings!
1 comment:
I had to laugh about the combined sleeping arrangement. My kids did the same thing during Christmas break. We had 3 mattresses lined up in Lydia's room for 2 weeks. They had a blast playing games, watching videos on a small portable dvd player, and doing flips on the mattresses. The room was a mess and I was very happy to get everything put back together on Sunday. But you are right...great memories were made.
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