Christmas is less than a week away and before we know it the madness will be gone. Don't get me wrong; I love everything about Christmas. I love the happy lights, the shiny presents, the anticipation factor, and the heart warming scents of the season.
As this is my sons second Christmas, we are getting closer to the times of his exciting, life long, Christmas memories in-the-making. I can remember the endless Christmas Eve nights watching the clock; time never goes as slow as it did on childhood Christmas Eves. We waited all day Christmas Eve to be able to open our traditional "one present before Christmas." That one present always made us more anxious to open the rest. My dad use to take away all of our alarm clocks so we couldn't set them for 2 am. Hee hee. Somehow Gavin always found a way to get up in the wee hours of the morning. He was always the first to riffle through the wondrous gifts Santa had left us in the living room. I remember him tip-toeing into my room and whispering, "London.... London...." as I stirred he would jump as if I were blowing our cover in a bank robber, "SSSSHHHHH! LONDON!!! Santa came. Come see!" We would tip-toe into the living room and adjust the Christmas candy that Skyler and Liberty received appropriately. Somehow Santa always left us more than he left Skyler and Liberty. After going through everything we would eventually go get our younger siblings. After about the 20th time one of us went in to our parents room to tell them one of the glorious items Santa left us, Mom and Dad would get up and let us open our gifts under the tree (one at a time, always youngest to oldest). Then Mom would make cherry crapes (Aunt Courtney's recipe). We spent most of the day in our PJ's and usually went out to Grandma Messerly's house for more presents and Christmas dinner.
Our Christmas's are a lot different now. Everyone is older and we've all kind of moved past the old traditions, but I can't help but miss them. We are all going to be back together this Christmas Eve at Gavin's home for a family Christmas party. I'm getting that excited feel all over again; I can't wait to watch my son and little niece rip into their gifts. It is time for us to make traditions for our own family. I can't wait to see the look on Kelson's face when he can see and feel the magic of Christmas. I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas.
As this is my sons second Christmas, we are getting closer to the times of his exciting, life long, Christmas memories in-the-making. I can remember the endless Christmas Eve nights watching the clock; time never goes as slow as it did on childhood Christmas Eves. We waited all day Christmas Eve to be able to open our traditional "one present before Christmas." That one present always made us more anxious to open the rest. My dad use to take away all of our alarm clocks so we couldn't set them for 2 am. Hee hee. Somehow Gavin always found a way to get up in the wee hours of the morning. He was always the first to riffle through the wondrous gifts Santa had left us in the living room. I remember him tip-toeing into my room and whispering, "London.... London...." as I stirred he would jump as if I were blowing our cover in a bank robber, "SSSSHHHHH! LONDON!!! Santa came. Come see!" We would tip-toe into the living room and adjust the Christmas candy that Skyler and Liberty received appropriately. Somehow Santa always left us more than he left Skyler and Liberty. After going through everything we would eventually go get our younger siblings. After about the 20th time one of us went in to our parents room to tell them one of the glorious items Santa left us, Mom and Dad would get up and let us open our gifts under the tree (one at a time, always youngest to oldest). Then Mom would make cherry crapes (Aunt Courtney's recipe). We spent most of the day in our PJ's and usually went out to Grandma Messerly's house for more presents and Christmas dinner.
Our Christmas's are a lot different now. Everyone is older and we've all kind of moved past the old traditions, but I can't help but miss them. We are all going to be back together this Christmas Eve at Gavin's home for a family Christmas party. I'm getting that excited feel all over again; I can't wait to watch my son and little niece rip into their gifts. It is time for us to make traditions for our own family. I can't wait to see the look on Kelson's face when he can see and feel the magic of Christmas. I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas.
Kelson was helping me wrap presents this morning.
He got a little tangled up.
He was not happy when I took the ribbon away.
2 comments:
You TOOK their candy?????
I'm glad you got a blog they are so much fun. & your little boy is a doll hes getting so big.
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