After celebrating Josh’s parents, we met my family for Christmas communion. This is always one of my favorite parts of Christmas. Our pastor and music minister lead us in communion as a family during a candlelight service. This year Ella was upset about not getting to have juice and a cracker, but she was very good. We had been explaining to her that Christmas is Jesus’ birthday and she was worried about not attending a party. During the service she asked Brother John about singing Happy Birthday to Jesus and he was sweet enough to sing with her. All the way home, though, she asked us why nobody else {other families waiting in the sanctuary} came up the steps to sing to baby Jesus and why he wasn’t there either?!
Once we return to my parents’ house, we always enjoy a snack supper – we all get to contribute to the menu and mom makes our favorites. Just to name a few, we had sausage balls, pigs in a blanket and a home made cheeseball. There was lots of food and we were stuffed!!
Ella enjoyed opening her stocking from Gran & Poppy and was thrilled to see her new pink scooter. Although she is as clumsy and unbalanced as her mommy, she managed to figure it out in no time! K and Cory bought her the pretty Fancy Nancy doll in the first picture. She has carried it around since; she is beautiful and looks just like the illustrations in our books.
She also got a cute horse flashlight that neighs when you turn it on. Although she has one similar to this at Nana’s, she’s never really understood the concept of a flashlight. Her daddy got in the floor and explained that you use it to look in really dark places. From them on, she was investigating ever crack and crevice in my parents’ house. She even shined it on us the entire car ride home.
This year, instead of buying gifts for everyone we decided to draw names and buy for one person each. I had my mother’s name and bought her pretty jewelry at Christmas Village. Josh had my dad and we got him a gift card to his favorite on-line computer store. My parent’s had K and Cory and they got an island for their kitchen. Cory bought Josh new, hip golf shoes and I got a pretty jewelry dish and a necklace from K. The necklace is from one of my favorite blogger’s’ etsy shop. I can’t wait to wear it!
We finished the evening with The Night Before Christmas read from my dad’s childhood story book. Merry Christmas Gran, Poppy, K & Cory!
