Christmas

We didn’t do Christmas properly this year. No Christmas meal or cookies, no tree, no Christmas music (no TV, no radio). Instead, we had pizza for dinner on Christmas Eve and eggs and toast for breakfast on Christmas Day, nothing out of the ordinary.

But we did start a few traditions of our own. We went birding on Christmas Eve Day, and saw two new species for our list. We also played a game of Scrabble after Evan went to sleep, which was quite entertaining (especially since I gave my husband a rump whooping!) And on Christmas morning we took Evan into our bed and had some giggles there before starting the day.

After breakfast, Evan got to open all his presents. We went to the Dollar Store the day before and got him a bunch of non-toy toys, since that’s what he’s into now, and a couple of toy toys. He got a Toy Story bowling set, a little truck, a Santa hat and some rubber ducks, but also wooden spoons, a Tupperware container to bang, and of course a rug he can actually put in his mouth if he wants to. I’ll give you one guess as to which one was his favorite. Yup, the spoons! He immediately went into drummer mode.

He enjoyed unwrapping the first present, but that was the spoons, so attention was a problem after that. But with a little help from dad he opened all of his gifts and started playing right away.

So next year we’ll do all the cooking and the tree decorating, hopefully in our first house. And we’ll repeat the birding, the giggle fest in bed, the present bonanza, and maybe even the Scrabble.

We hope y’all had a very Merry Christmas!