Merry Christmas Everyone!

I wasn't planning on doing a Christmas post, but today was such an interesting day i thought i'd let everyone in on it. It started off normal enough ... in our house that's the kids getting up first and getting really annoyed that Ang (my wife) and i aren't getting up fast enough followed by opening presents and playing with a couple of toys and then breakfast and then ... well, after that it sort of varies from year to year. Sometimes we're in Florida, sometimes we're in NY, some times we spend the whole day at home, sometimes we spend the day with family. This year was a Florida/with family kind of year.
So after breakfast, we packed up the car and headed to my mother-in-law's house for some Christmas lunch and family time. My 3 girls have about a million cousins, but there were 6 of them at my MIL's house today and everyone seemed to get along well and behave themselves, which if you knew the 9 of them you would know that it was certainly a Christmas miracle. All the parents actually got to eat warm food and (thanks Terry) and i got to talk a little bible with my pastor Brother-in-law. I don't think i could possibly tell you how atypical the whole afternoon was, and in the end my middle one and their oldest played race cars with my baby daughter and everyone was nice and got along. After that we came home and my baby played with her new doll house for HOURS quietly, the other two played with the new Strawberry Shortcake dolls (yes they still smell like they used to) and i just relaxed and Ang read a book. It was the most relaxed, peaceful day i can remember ... maybe ever.

On the disappointment front, Michaelia didn't get the Nintendo DS that she wanted and Winkie is mad that for the second year in a row Santa did not leave one of his reindeer even though she asked him and he said he would (last year she got a stuffed one and was mad because she TOLD him to bring a REAL one, not a stuffed one).

Today i realized i love Christmas, even the commercialized version that we celebrate. So with that, i wish you all a very Merry Christmas.