Christmas has come and gone. Why does it always seem like it takes forever for it to get to Thanksgiving and then before you know it Christmas day is here. Then on that night I always feel like, where did Christmas go? We had a pretty good week of Christmas. It started on the saturday before Christmas. We went to my mom's house and ate chilli and homemade pizza, then we exchanged gifts. On Christmas Eve we headed down the road to Lonnie's Parent's house. We had dinner and then exchanged gifts with them too. That night it was a little hard to get Jae to go to sleep. I thought that since she had played with her cousin Becky for six hours, that she would be worn out and go right to sleep. Boy was I wrong. She opened two gifts from me and Lonnie. She got The Night Before Christmas book, new pajamas to wear that night, and Jingle the Husky pup. She was excited (especially over Jingle) and looked at us and said "Oh, Thank you Momma and Daddy!" I felt so touched that she had manners and used them. She put on her new Pajamas and Lonnie read both stories to her; then it was bedtime. Finally, around midnight she went to sleep. Lonnie set up all the presents and we went to bed. Christmas morning Jae didn't wake up until 10am. I couldn't believe it. I really had thought she would at least wake up by 6am. After we opened gifts we sat around all day playing with Jae's toys and taking it easy. That evening we got some snow, so on Wednesday morning we got up and took Jae out to play in the snow. She loves to sled. Her and Lonnie played in the snow for about an hour or more. That night we had a nice big home cooked dinner and then went to bed early. Thursday morning I had a OBGYN appointment. While we were there we learned that last month when I took my glucose test that my numbers were elevated. So, I had to schedule an appointment to do the fasting 3 hour glucose test. Oh yay!( a little sarcasm there) after the appointment we then headed to Cabot to have Christmas at my dad's house. I cooked dinner for all of us when I got there, and then we waited for my brother to come in from work. While we were waiting we went next door to visit with my Uncle and he gave Jae some presents. It was about midnight when he got there, but the roads down there where still a little icy and there was snow everywhere. Jae could hardly wait to open her gifts. She was so excited to get a bow and arrow set and a Duck hunting game for outside.(the duck really flies and you have 3 chances to shoot it down)She also was happy about her flashing rain boots. Finally on Friday we had our last Christmas event. We went to my Aunt and Uncles house for our annual Garner Christmas. There we ate soup and Sandwiches and then the kids all exchanged gifts. We visited for a few hours and Jae played with her cousin Anslee and my little step sister Morgan. That night at about 9:30 we started our Journey home. We finally arrived home about midnight, unpacked and headed to bed. We all three slept good that night. My main regret about Christmas, is that I wish I could have gotten more for lonnie. We had decided not to really get anything for each other except maybe a small gift. Well, all I had got him was a Phillip Phillips cd, and He bought me a new set of beautiful dishes and a box of Coffee for my Keurig coffee maker. I felt bad, but he said there really wasn't anything he needed or wanted. All in all I think we had a pretty good Christmas. I know that Jae had an amazing Christmas. She thanked everyone for her gifts and loved every present. It warmed my heart to see her so happy and appreciative, even if she is only 3 years old.
