The holidays are officially upon us. Our dorm boys leave tonight. Jason's family all arrives tomorrow. We are celebrating Christmas on Thursday (which, uh, I guess means tomorrow is Christmas Eve for us...crazy thought!) Thursday night we are going to Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party at the Magic Kingdom. THEN...we breath. Jason's family is here until Monday (the real Christmas Eve) and then we have another week before our boys come back. We have to work three of those days but they are just a regular 8-4 day so we still have nights off and time to hang out together as a family. I am actually glad to be getting all the craziness of Christmas done with so then the rest of the break is more relaxing. Jason and I were laughing the other day that we never actually celebrate Christmas ON Christmas. It has just been better for us to do it when it was convenient (which with our jobs/life situation isn't necessarily on the 25th). Last year we did Christmas on the 10th of December!
Anyway, lots to do. The house is still being put back together from the massive clean and move party this weekend. I have groceries to buy, presents to wrap, stockings to stuff. I will probably check in tomorrow but my be absent on Thursday and Friday. We'll see!
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Our anniversary yesterday was nice. There wasn't a whole lot of time to celebrate, but Jason has always been good about making the day special no matter what craziness comes our way. We ended up having lunch with our kids and then at 1:30, when we had a babysitter, we decided to do some last minute shopping...without the kids. I can't believe how much faster it is to run into stores without getting three kids in and out of car seats. No chasing them around the store. No explanations of WHY they don't need every toy they see. No trips to the potty. It was nice and we enjoyed spending some time together.
In the evening a local restaurant came and catered for our whole campus. We had an amazing steak dinner (and I LOVE steak). Jason was so sweet and brought me a vase of flowers and a candle to our table in the cafeteria. Love that man!
The rest of the evening was spent with our boys -- having them take one evening and think about OTHER people. We had them make cards for their teacher, their relief cottage parent, their case worker, and their parents. It had never even occurred to them (in the midst of worrying about how many presents they would get) that they should think about GIVING for a bit :) This is the big stuff of parenting these boys -- helping them learn to move beyond themselves and see the worth and value in others and to see how their actions affect the people they come into contact with.
Alrighty -- I've rambled on enough (I think I am procrastinating on other stuff). Have a great Tuesday!
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