After our unsettled Christmases of packing and moving in both December 2020 and 2021, we were very happy in 2022 to have a quiet Christmas in the home where we've been living all year!
Janae, Alaina and Eric provided lots of entertainment, including a Christmas singalong that included a very active version of "Up on the Housetop" (where lots of Superheroes fell off the roof) and an opera that Janae had written and then taught to her younger siblings (featuring a "very odd porcupine quill" and a plot adapted beyond recognition from Kate Morton’s novel The House at Riverton).
Our church's Primary had a "Breakfast with Santa," which was cancelled due to a heavy snowfall and then rescheduled for Dec. 22. Since we hadn't visited Santa at the mall this year, Eric used the opportunity to put in his request for a lightsaber.
All of the snow and ice gave us a nice set of icicles along our deck on Christmas Eve,
and lots of shoveling to do at Grandma's.
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| Ben and Janae did a good job! |
On Christmas Eve we also kept our traditions of making Finnish pulla and hot chocolate and having Jason cook breakfast for dinner. Unfortunately, we didn't go look at Christmas lights because the roads were too slippery.
After dinner, the kids opened their gifts from each other and then we watched A Muppet Christmas Carol.
Christmas morning, the kids got up at 6:00, even though they knew they had to wait until 7 to open their presents. But the big moment finally came, and everyone got some pretty nice gifts.....
including that lightsaber Eric had mentioned to Santa :)
We went to church and then came home to make a turkey dinner. Ben read his new manga, Janae taught herself macramé, Alaina started on The Count of Monte Cristo, and Eric worked on his lightsaber skills.
Grandma came over and spent the afternoon and evening with us, finishing off with "Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean."
We were pretty tired by the end of the day, but only Ben fell asleep on the couch--he got covered with bows for the second year in a row :)
I was so grateful for this time together and hope everyone had a happy and memorable Christmas.
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