Kate is really into Santa this year, which means tons of fun! Santa came early to our house so we could have time to celebrate with all our other family members. Christmas Eve we made cookies for Santa. Kate wanted to make shapes for Santa, so he got a tree, Santa face, angel, star…. Abby mainly enjoyed decorating, aka eating, the cookies while Kate pilled on the icing and sprinkles. The girls got to open their Christmas Eve gift; matching pajamas and a Christmas book.
I assumed Kate was still too young for the whole waking early thing. I was wrong, it was only 30 minutes earlier than normal but she was ready to go and we weren’t quite up yet. Luckily “Santa” had eaten his cookies and the sign was already made. We followed tradition of bypassing tree presents and opening our stockings first followed by some cinnamon rolls. Santa left their two big presents by their tree in the playroom. My plan was for them to see those last. However, Santa had set up all the train tracks and the big bag hiding Kate’s bike was too much of a giveaway and they went straight there. (That morning Kate wanted to go downstairs to see the princess bike she personally asked Santa for. I’m glad he was able to deliver this year because she loved it)! Abby was obsessed with the trains and we couldn’t get her away to open the other presents :) Kate very kindly “helped” Abby open all her presents. We had a fun morning and the girls were beyond excited and loved playing with their toys.
~On a side note Christmas is A LOT of work! I don’t think I ever realized all the effort that went into making Christmas such a magical time for me as a child. It’s worth it though, because I want our kids to have the same wonderful experiences I had. All it took was seeing them the night before and that morning to remember why Mom’s do everything they do!
Definitely worth it!
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