Day 125 and 126.....What we call Christmas!

The last two days are squished into one because I consider Christmas Eve and Christmas just sort of one whole day.  Time to bullet my 48 hours of fun.

• There was lots of good and lots of bad in the last two days, as well as some weird thrown in for good measure.  But let's type the happy thoughts, shall we?  We start out our first happy moment being me getting to sleep a lot in the last two days.  I have not been feeling good, and whether it is the arm or some weird flu, I am grateful for the mass quantity of sleep I have gotten.
• On Christmas Eve, we spent a jolly Christmas time at my parents' house.  Santa Claus comes at around 5, and fun was had by all.  I will never forget Joel's eyes this year looking at Santa with such childlike faith.  Everything Santa told Connor to do was responded to with an "all right."  Too cute.
• I'm not gonna lie, my favorite Christmas present we got last night was a hefty gift card to our local movie theater that has VIP rooms and the best darn food you can order delivered to your seat.  Date night coming soon with David.
• One of my spiritual happy moments yesterday was getting to read the Christmas story to my sons and nieces, and have them help me put visual aids on a felt board.  It was so cute to see Joel and my niece Lilly argue over who was going to put the shepherds out with their flock.  And it was amazing to see their little light bulb go off on why we celebrate Christmas.
• Today we began our day at 8 AM.  Thank you Joel and Connor for sleeping in, and not dragging us down the stairs at 5 AM like the neighbor's kids did to their parents.  We all had a good time opening presents, and then we Skyped with David's parents and they got to watch the boys open a present from them.  That was really fun.
• Our next adventure today was to deliver our final Christmas presents to a family we have been doing the Twelve Days of Christmas for.  For those of you who don't know what that is, we dropped off a little present and a spiritual Christmas story every night for the last 11 nights (okay, David dropped it off at least four of those without me lol).  When we went in today, that wonderful family had a book for the boys, and the family took pity on us and invited us to Christmas breakfast.  I'm going to be honest, I have no idea what my family would have eaten for breakfast if it had not been for them inviting us to their table.  It was meant to be because they made homemade cinnamon rolls, and David and I usually make that every year on Christmas Eve to pop in the oven Christmas morning.  That didn't happen this year lol.  It was really nice to be with that family and share some of our Christmas spirit.  We are so grateful to them for letting us ding dong ditch them for 11 nights and not trying to find out who we were.  It made it really fun for our whole family.
• Later on tonight we did dinner with my great aunt in her new home (formerly my grandmother's home).  It was really nice because her caretaker, whom we are really close friends with, had her family come over for a bit (that includes Connor and Joel's nanny), so everyone had fun visiting with them.  The caretaker's son sang Silent Night on his guitar, and then Love at Home in Tongan.  I finally got some Christmas music.  Very happy moment for me indeed.  We came home and let the boys play with their toys for a few more minutes, and they were off to bed.  Connor is still on a Christmas high, and I can hear him talking in his room, and I can't tell him Santa won't come if he doesn't go to sleep, dang it!

Wishing you all a wonderful holiday, and I am off to take some more pain medication, and drift into dreamland.  Merry Christmas everyone, and to all a good night!