Christmas is a fun time of year. It use to be a pretty relaxing time of year but not with three kids and parents who think they need to see their grandkids and cousins who want to play and sisters who think we need to spend time together. Throw in a few Christmas parties, all the shopping, and traveling in bad weather. It gets kinda crazy.
We had an early Christmas party with the Bartholomew's this year. I read in one of the Sunday school lessons, of how they use to have all the adults eat dinner first, then let the kids eat after. I have since been trying to convince the family that this is they way to go. As it is now, we cram in all the adults around the dinner table, so close that we sometimes use the same plates to save room on the table. Then the kids eat at a smaller dinner table in the middle of the kitchen, well, now we have added another small table for the boys. Once everyone is seated, your seated. There is no getting up to get something we forgot at the table, not even to beat the rowdy kids. So instead we all just yell at the kids as we try and have a conversation. "STOP PUSHING THE TABLE!!" "SIT DOWN AND EAT!" "DON'T FEED THE DOGS!"CASH, STOP STICKING PEOPLE WITH YOUR FORK!" And so on and so forth.
B is our little dancer. She dances to everything that has a beat. Haeli was playing some Christmas music on the piano while everyone was hanging out after dinner and waiting to open presents and b was just dancing away.
2 comments:
T- It was great to see you over the break. You're kids are so adorable. I can't beleive we're all moms and all grown-up, it is CRAZY. Hope you had a Merry Christmas.
Excuse me??!! You don't have to spend time with us...whatever. Oh boy was I laughing at the dinner scene. I could see it all in my head :)
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