Christmas Day

Our tree at midnight

We've had a wonderful Christmas day! It was actually really nice to have a Christmas day where I didn't have to plan for a trip in a couple days. I didn't even have to rush to take down decorations. I came down a little after 8 AM. I think it was about 8:30 AM by the time we started opening presents and we spent about an hour and a half. Everyone enjoyed their presents. Jonny got a kick out of the K-pop Demon Hunters vinyl that I got him, as well as the Monopoly game that was K-pop Demon Hunters themed. Daniel liked his aebleskivers pan. Nathaniel was happy about all his movies and books. Audrey had plenty to open but I didn't get her anything fancy today because we already got her that nice Le Crueset pot that she loves. I was happy that she liked the little Carter's outfit that I got for Charlie that said Small Fry because she calls him that all the time. In fact, that's what she said, "I call him that all the time." I got so many nice things. Michael bought me like three different dresses and the scarf and nail polish I requested so that was nice. I got him a new wedding ring because his is too big and keeps falling off. Daniel and Nathaniel and Audrey he got me a book. Nathaniel wrote a nice card for me. Jonny got me a candle from Yankee candle and I love it. It smells really good! I swear it's the same candle that my mom used to light. It reminds me of her. 

I got Daniel an aebleskiver pan and the little wooden turning sticks so he suggested we have two going at the same time and that was a brilliant idea because we were able to make a ton of aebleskivers. I think we ended up making 77 of them. That was with a triple batch. We also heated up some leftover ham to go with it and everyone enjoyed it. Charlie even liked them. Audrey made some punch for us. She uses pineapple juice, Sprite, rainbow sherbet, and vanilla ice cream. It’s more like a smoothie but very good! She made it in one of our big, red bowls and she mixed it with the hand mixer.  After we cleaned up, we played one of the new games called Tapple. Daniel had bought it for Nathaniel and Audrey. You get a category and then you have to name words starting with different letters in that category and the last one standing gets to keep the card and the first one to three cards wins. Michael won pretty quickly and nobody wanted to play again. Everyone had done a great job cleaning up while Daniel and I were cooking. While we were cooking we called Emily and put her on the big screen. She told us about how busy it was yesterday but they made some fake reservations so the kitchen didn't get so backed up. We had her add Papa to the call so we could say hi to him, too. After we played the game, everyone did their own thing for a little while. The boys played Smash Bros a few times throughout the day. I did some things on the computer. Audrey put Charlie down for a nap. I got caught up on social media and rested for a while. A little before 5 PM, I came down and Michael was already starting on dinner. I made two chocolate pies. I showed Audrey how to do it and she asked for the recipe so of course I let her have it. She took a picture of it in the binder. Then I made some sides like shrimp and mashed potatoes and spinach artichoke dip. I didn't end up making crab dip. We already had so much food. Everyone enjoyed the dinner. We got cleaned up and played some Jackbox. Then it was time for Charlie to go to bed so I asked if we could have a prayer together. Then the boys played more Smash Bros. We talked about watching a movie but everybody really wanted to watch Stranger Things so I got some of my own tasks done while they did that and I listened to Spotify on my AirPods so I didn't hear the show and get spoilers.

I feel so blessed that we had such a fantastic Christmas!