Christmas – These Jonesys

Christmas has always been my favorite time of the year. Everything about it. This year was no different. This Christmas was a little bittersweet for us, but without going into details we still had a great Christmas. I know our oldest’s days of believing in Santa are numbered especially when there are kids at school who don’t believe, and make every point they can to prove their case. I can’t begin to describe are aggravating that is to me. He fully believes and and wants to believe and the fact that most his friends still do has him holding on to that hope. That Santa. Is. Real. Like, for real. And I’m sorry, but how can he not believe, when Santa brought him a Nintendo 3DS for Christmas. He knows for a fact that is parents would never buy it (wink).

Our little girl is still about all things Disney princesses. Everything about Christmas is magical to her. She loves singing along to every Christmas song on the radio and she’s got a pretty good bravada if I do say so myself. Her FROZEN dolls and tea set from Santa were a huge hit this year.

An then there’s the youngest…This kid is hilarious. He’s picked up how to unwrap gifts from his older siblings and he’s a quick learner. Every time he’d unwrap something he’d go “Whoa..whoa..” and then he’d move on to the next gift. He received a roller coaster. I’ll never forget that smile or the “WEEEEEEE” and he would ride it down the track. He loved his Disney World toy and a race track from Neema.

Christmas Eve they each always open one gift. It’s really just to hold them off till the morning, but I’ve made it a tradition to get them each new Christmas jammies and a book to read on Christmas Eve.

It’s bittersweet that the oldest can now read the Christmas Eve stories to the little ones. I can’t believe this was our 9th Christmas with him. I remember his first like it was yesterday.

What do you mean I can’t have one??

See you in the morning…Merry Christmas Eve:)

She’s been begging all semester to come to preschool with her. I finally did, and the memories came flooding back of when I would go spend a day with big brother at preschool a few years back. Any day is a great day to go to preschool with my girl, but man, I really picked a fun one by accident this time. First up, the pledge of allegiance of course. For a 4 year old, I’m in awe that she knows the whole thing after only weeks of starting school. With eyes of wonder, her teacher read them the story of The Little Gingerbread Man. It was felt character magic for their little eyes. I wonder if she thinks the Gingerbread man is real, as I did when I was her age. It was a class effort to put together all the ingredients to make our gingerbread man cookies. They held their hands behind their backs and were so patient waiting for their individual turns to stir the cookie batter. It was then cookie cutting time. Complete with candy eyes and buttons. And then into the oven they went. While we waiting for our Gingerbread men to finish baking, the kids had some center time. It was so fun to see what Sam gravitated towards. Of course she chose the little dress up spagetti people, which doesn’t surprise me one bit. And then it was off to do some art, followed by playing in the class kitchen. The kids were so excited to finally get too eat their gingerbread cookies that they worked so hard on. They were delicious! Spending this morning with my girl has been all sorts of fun. Can’t wait to go back.