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We had a lovely CHRISTmas and hope everyone else did as well. It was a hectic weekend but also quiet and reverent at times. Our church services were beautiful (Pastor’s message was “spot on”!) and visiting with family was wonderful (yet quite chaotic at times).
Christmas Eve afternoon was spent with Mr. Steady’s family (40+ people) and Christmas Day was spent with my extended clan (only 24 people) at our house.

So last night was spent cleaning up and putting away and today, with Mr. Steady home it is a lazy restful day after all the excitement.
Plenty of leftovers to keep us full and lots of books and games and puzzles and whatnot to keep us occupied.
I love our tradition of giving our children 3 gifts- they loved each one and were not overwhelmed by it all. My brother mentioned to me that they went a bit overboard with the gifts and my nephew still had a few presents he hadn’t even opened yet due to present overload. In fact, my nephew wouldn’t even open his gifts from us last night- too busy wanting to play and play and play with Mr. Conductor’s new train set.

Mr. Conductor is just so enjoying his train set and Maiden loves her new sewing machine so much. Sassafras was thrilled to get exactly what she asked for (Adventures in Odyssey and Jonathan Park CDs) and was enthralled with the special nativity set we gave her. Not once did they ask us if there was any more or where the rest of the presents were.
It was a very content morning. After the turmoil of feelings for me last week it was exactly what I had prayed for. Speaking of me- Mr. Steady’s gold gift to me is a treasure indeed. He built me a crèche for my Willow Tree Nativity set. It is incredibly beautiful and my heart is full. He sweated and fretted over it and made it with his own two hands and ingenuity and I love it more because of it all. Mr. Steady got what he wanted too- a fancy extension ladder. He was very touched by the homemade gifts from the children and laughed and laughed over the car air freshener packet they also gave him.

I love your upper case

2:53 PM, 2006-Dec-26 .. Posted by jackiebridgen

CHRISTmas, i must remember to do that next year. Here, we are plagued by people referring to 'Xmyth' and 'Thingymas' - I'm guessing you don't get that in the US.