We had a wonderful Christmas. I absolutely love getting together with my family, and I am really glad my family puts in the effort to come together. On Christmas Eve day we made some cookies for Santa, which was really cute and fun - the cookies turned out really yummy! We went first to my aunt Nancy's and uncle Don's on Christmas Eve - excellent dinner as usual, and fun games, as usual! We also opened our first presents (new jammies for each of us) and they opened theirs. Then we went to my aunt Martha and uncle Neil's home and hung out there and opened more presents from Grandpa Steve - getting home and to bed at about 1:30 after setting out all the presents from Santa. Christmas morning was fun as it is bound to be and the kids got really great presents this year, all things they like and age appropriate. I was happily surprised at how perfect the gifts ended up being. We spent Christmas day and night at my Grandmas with a whole bunch of wonderful family, and more games, and more super yummy food! And here are the pics - from Christmas Eve mostly. Thanks everybody! oh, and the last pic is jalapeno jelly (who knew) - surpisingly yummy, made by my aunt Robin!
Ok. So, we've talked to M about strangers a bit, telling her to be safe and what not. A couple of times she brings it up when we say no she can't do something and she says "because there are stangers?" or some such. We haven't talked about it recently, but apparently the message stuck: We were at Wal-Mart, had just finised checking out and J went to use the restroom and M wanted to get a drink from the water fountain -I was still a few steps behind, so M said "Mom will you come a little bit closer?" and I said yes, and she continued "because you wouldn't want a stranger to grab me." I smiled and said "No I wouldn't like that." And she said "You would say 'oh no! someone has taken my child!" At which point I couldn't help but laugh and tell her how much I loved her.
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