Merry Christmas!

Hi! I know its actually the day AFTER, but I'm making an UPDATE, and its about CHRISTMAS, sooo....yeah, so there. :P
First of all: I'm sorry if it offends anyone (which I dont think it will...just maybe annoy) but I dont think I'll be taking down my Christmas layout. At least not yet. Not so soon. :)
Now. Here's what our sortaish plan was for Christmas.
Christmas Eve: Josh comes, we sing, leave cookies for "Santa", and go to bed-all three youngster children sleeping in Abi's room. Christmas, we get up, do our normal traditions, and then have a young man named G over for Christmas dinner.
So.

We decorated cookies and chose two to put out for Mr. and Mrs. Claus..of course we talked with Mom and Dad about, "Which ones do you think they'll like?" and "How MANY do you think they'll want?" ;) :P
Josh came! :) We talked, laughed, watched A Muppet's Christmas Carol, sang, read the Christmas story, and most drank egg-nog. Then Abi down, the kids the went to bed. I mean from Abi agewise-down. We were lying awake reading and it sure sounded like Josh and Zeke and Dad and Mom are just having a party out there. Goodness! It was already about 12 or 1 by the time we finished singing and reading the Christmas story...then I think it was pretty quiet-or at least, Josh and Zeke went downstairs. Probably not in bed though. :P We read, AJ fell asleep, we read, we turned off the lights, took medicine when Mom heard one of us coughing. (BLECH! I was too lazy to go get some water to wash mine down with-Ewwww..yucky cough medicine :P)
Then we tried to go to sleep. I'm not sure how succsessful the others were, but for me it seemed to take forever. Then I woke up at like 5...maybe. I think so. I saw the sky looked kind of light, and at first I thought there was only one star in the sky. Ooh yay! Dawn was coming! Hmm. Maybe I should wake up Abi. ARG. WHEN did we ever open Christmas presents at 5am?? ...neverrr..okay. No. It was too early. Oh, but once it becomes lighter, then I can wake her up! And judging from the looks of outside, that would be pretty soon! NOT. Maybe an hour or so later the sky started to become lighter, oh..and yes there were more stars than I thought when I had first looked out. Basically, I woke up Abi about three times.
"Wait what time is it?"
I answered with the time.
"Oh its too early, let Mom and Dad get some more sleep."
Okay.
"What time is it?"
I answer with the time.
"Hold on I want to sleep a little bit longer..maybe another hour"
"Another hour? SIGH But Abi..okay. I want to get up...."
"Okay what time is it?"
I think it was about 6..maybe 6:15, 6:25, etc.
"Okay how about 7 then?"
"Okay."
And then maybe I woke her up a third time, only I THINK then it was light out, maybe 7:something. I was trying to be generous and sleep in, even though there was definitly light, but then I heard Mom and Dad were already UP! In fact, I think Mom was working on the cinnamon rolls, and Dad was in the shower already.
I woke Abi up.
"Come on-Mom and Dad are up!"
"Okay wake the kids up." (or something along thsoe lines)
So I woke them, and we went out to sit in the hallway. Abi came just a wee bit later, then Josh, then Zeke. Abe was sayinh he was not going to try to get there first as usual. Jo and AJ and I had usually tried to do that, although it didnt really matter since we ALL got gifts. It was just fun. :) Joy was a bit upset I think, because it was fun to race, but then she warned Abe that the stockings probably weren't going to be so full this year, she warned him very gently. And he goes "I know." Anyways. Eventually, Mom came and waved us forward and no one noticed, so Mom goes, "Oh goodness, I'm waving you forward!" And I heard and I say, "Ooh, can we go?" she says yes, and...it was weird. Cause none of us really ran or anything but eventually as we got closer we did kind of run. :) And yes, Abe stuck to it. He came in last! The little gentleman. Anywhoo, our stockings were definitly not scarce. Not quite sure what we were thinking! :) I got a Puzzlemania (yes those things are awesome), glostick bracelets, I think, two clementines, candy cane chocolates, dark chocolates, extra dark choclates with blueberries, cranberries, and nuts, I think, Dentyne gum, cinnamon tic-tacs, spearmint tic-tacs, skittles gum, and a beatiful handmade bracelet. Abi had made it and somehow it had ended up in Mom's gift drawer and she thought oh I dont have anything special in Mo's stocking yet, and so put it in there, when Abi was thinking, "Oh I feel bad I dont have time to make Mo something." :) So it worked out!
Okay. So when we drew names, I got AJ's name. Oh goodness, such fun! :) So I got him one of those magnetic drawing things, a devotional book that also teaches you about animals, a certificate that said a how-to-juggle book was coming in the mail soon, and when we did the knitting class, we had made juggling balls, and there were three of us, and it was Mom's lovely idea to give them to Abe. So he opened one box and there was a ball, and another box, another ball, anoher box another ball, and another package a paper saying he was going to get a how to juggle book. :)

I got:
from Mrs.M: a beautiful sort of Victorian stocking with I think perfume and soap and an ornament inside. And a very cute notepad and a beautiful watch.
from Ydolem: haha, I was there when she bought it and she knows that too-she had me pick it out. At Strawberry Banke, it was so funny, us two gals in taht age range where most think they're too cool for anything, we we spent the longest time at teh stuffed animal box-longer than we did at any of the other elegant and sophisticated displays! :P She had o and I each choose a stuffed animal. I now am in possesion of a beautiful stuffed swan.
From Abi: a journal, (with a sweet note) a paint by number with the sweetest golden lab on the cover, an engraving art of butterflies-only it comes out rainbow, and pink flower hair snaps. :)
From Zeke: (he got my name! :) a Seacret nail/hand sort of kit, that is REALLY cool, ROOM NOISES by EISLEY! The Tragic Treasury by the Gothic Archies..if you're a fan of Lemony Snicket, you should know what that is. :) Or be able to guess anyways. AND I got this BEAUTIFUL pendant and stud set, which is genuine crystal, I know that doesnt make it precious crystal, but it is still oh-so beautiful and elegant and I love it! :)

I gave to Ydolem: a pack of six earrings: three "danglys" and three studs. Haha, I mean PAIRS of studs. I also told her that part two would be coming soon, which I plan to be a **** and ***** *****! Haha, I'm sorry, but I know you read my site, Ydolem! :P

I gave TA some earrings for her birthday, a rhinestone sticker sign of her name for her birthday, and some earrings for Christmas along with a promise that more will be coming...whcih I'm planning will probably be a...maybe a *** or a *****, only I'm not sure which ****** she would like. :P Who knows, she may read my site too! :P

Ooh! And I got a beautiful chroceted scarf and matching hat for Christmas from Frankie! :) I plan to get her something similar to Ydolem's and TA's part two gifts. :)

I hope you all had a VERY wonderful Christmas. :) And Jen, I hope you had a very wonderful, absolutely great, Christmas. :)
May God Bless y'all, and Merry Christmas to you. :)
"God Bless us, everyone."
~MOFACE