Ahem. OK.
Holidays:
We had an extremely relaxing Christmas and New Year's Eve. Again, we didn't go anywhere, and I think it makes a huge difference not having to spend 2 days traveling and worrying about traveling and making sure we see everyone. Although we still miss seeing everyone and getting all together, we're just so much more relaxed.
Christmas Eve, we went to our church's first-ever Christmas Eve service. It was really nice. Our neighbors came with us and it was a nice time to be surrounded by our Boston "family." Eden didn't nap that day but she was so good during the service - I had to take her out a couple of times (once in particular because she wanted to hold the lit candle all by herself - um, no thank you) but after a brief discussion about how that was not proper behavior she straightened up and we returned to the service. (Note we had a serious mother/daughter bonding moment prior to the service - I was putting hot rollers in my hair and she said "Mommy I want some too!" so I curled her hair for the first time ever - the whole process was adorable and made me just flash forward so much):
After the service we came home and - per our tradition - opened one present each. SURPRISE! Everyone got jammies! We changed into our new jammies, sang Happy Birthday to Jesus (which she's been singing over and over ever since) and Eden went to bed excited for Santa to come.
Christmas Day, we woke up to a tree full of presents which I, of course, failed to get a picture of. But here are some highlights:
Santa brought a table and chairs for Miss Eden (so excited because now there are places in her room for Mommy & Daddy to SIT other than the floor!):
Grandma and Grandpa sent her a ladybug "Pillow Pat" which she loves (and apparently it tastes good as well?):
Poor Nino, who didn't get anything under the tree this year (yeah, sorry kitty, you're slowly making your way further down the proverbial totem pole), got serious enjoyment from the boxes:
My highlight? Hiding in my stocking was a cute little silver and bronze clamshell necklace from Etsy with two tiny pearls inside. I can't find a picture and I'm too lazy to run upstairs and take one, but the bronze part on the back looks like a nest and so the two little pearls look like eggs. I love it so much. Santa did a great job!
We had a lot of fun opening our presents, then talking to Grandpa and Grandma by Skype, and then we just played for a few hours. We headed over to J&K's place after Eden's nap to hang out and have early Christmas dinner with them and her family. Loved it, as always. They are all some of our absolute favorite people in the world, and J&K are family to us. I can't imagine Boston without them! But I'm not going to right now. Moving on!
The huge snowstorm in the Northeast meant that my brother (who lives in NY) couldn't come up to visit as planned, since we were both basically snowed in, so we just had a very very low-key week after Christmas.
New Year's Eve showed us just how old and boring we are - but we loved it anyway! We were perfectly content to have dinner with some good friends of ours (who have 3 kids that Eden adores) and then head over to J&K's, put the kids to bed (nice trial run for Miss Eden, who will probably be staying over there in their spare room when Miss Leah is making her arrival) and then played 1/4 of a game of Cranium while watching the festivities at Times Square on TV (Hello? Backstreet Boys and NKOTB? It was a little weird for me, I must admit, and made me feel quite old...). Midnight came, kisses from my love and a champagne toast came (only a couple of sips for me, I promise), and then Bryan and John somehow ended up laying on the kitchen floor while we were all just talking,
and Bryan promptly passed out.
By 1:30 I was driving two sleepyheads back to our house, and by 2:00 everyone was asleep.
Boring, maybe to some, but to us it doesn't really get any better. We were extremely blessed in 2010, and look forward to 2011 bringing even more joy, including the arrival of our sweet little Leah! And just in case you didn't get it, here's our Christmas card photo (an appropriate way to wrap up, I think?):
1 comment:
Glad you guys are doing well and had a wonderful relaxing Christmas. Hope all goes well leading up to the arrival of your new little one. Congrats to you guys.
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