I was going to wait until next Sunday to write about Christmas, but I have time today to write, so I thought I would just do it today.
So as I mentioned
the girls slept downstairs and it took them a lot longer than I thought to fall
asleep; I needed to bring the vacuum downstairs before I went to bed and I
waited as long as possible to bring it down, but when I got down there, they
were still awake. Sally had been watching her Ipad, I told her to please put it
away and try and sleep. They said they weren’t tired, but I finally got them
down.
I went to
bed a little before midnight. I was happy that I stretched out doing the
wrapping throughout the last week, in the past I have stayed up way late into
the morning of Christmas. I think I did it then because the kids still believed
in Santa and if they saw wrapped presents, they might have guessed that he wasn’t
real. We have told our kids that we help Santa and that the spirit of Santa is
real. I do not think Sally gets it yet, but that’s okay.
So anyway,
early Monday morning I heard the girls downstairs fighting; Sally finally came
up and said that Macy had told her that she couldn’t come up and give me a hug
and tried to force her to stay downstairs. While I wanted them to stay down
there, I was fine with her giving me a hug. I think this was around 6:00 in the
morning, and I desperately wanted to get more sleep, so I told her to go back
down and try and watch something and wait it out. I had told them the night before
that we were going to try to shoot for 8 am to open presents.
I did not
fully fall back asleep but I was able to get a little shut eye and then around
8, they kids came up and said that their dad was finishing going to the
bathroom and then we could commence with Christmas.
We let the
kids open up their stocking stuff and then they took turns opening up their
presents. It took us about 40 minutes from start to finish and I was happy that
we did it the way we did. I remember in years past that something that was hard
for me after Christmas morning was the mess. This year I really wanted to stay
on top of it all. While we opened up the presents my husband had a bag for the wrappings
and garbage and we did a good job of getting all the paper in the trash but
there was still a lot of stuff just around.
After
opening presents, my husband went back to bed and I decided to lay down too.
Guess what, I fell asleep…like really clonked out. I was awakened a few times
but I was in bed for a good 3 hours. I didn’t want to wake up when Teddy came
and asked to go to a friends house but I got up and took him to Rexburg. I stopped
at Walgreens on the way home because I wanted to get some eye make up removed
pads that I got there a while ago, but today they were out. I looked it up on
their website but it did not give me anything. I was able to find a different
brand and bought it.
Something
that I am wanting to do better is wearing some make up and washing it off at
night. Right now, I always do my brows and sometimes I wear mascara but that is
it. I wish that I cared more about my physical appearance but when you are
overweight and feel ugly, no amount of make up is going to change your opinion.
So anyway, I
got home and realized that my living room was a disaster…the girls had opened
up many of their things and had it strewn across the floor. I just went into my
room again and decided to not think about it.
My husband
came up a little while later and asked if we wanted to go to a movie. We
normally try and go to one on Christmas but I am not a huge fan of movies. There
were two movies that we thought about going to and ended up going to an
animated movie called Migration.
It turned
out to be cute but not spectacular. We had picked up Teddy from his friends
house on the way and he wasn’t too keen on going to the movie, he had wanted to
see the Willy Wonka movie, but the girls picked this one and we decided to go
as a family. He ended up falling asleep at the beginning and slept though the whole
movie. Halfway through Macy said her tummy hurt and laid down on the disgusting
floor. Sally didn’t stay in her seat the whole time, it was a little embarrassing
but there were only like 5 other people in the theatre, so I said whatever.
We came home
and I did a little bit of cleaning but there is still a mess. I told myself that
I was going to clean it up after we put our tree away but then my husband said we
should keep the tree up a little bit longer, so well see when I tackle the living
room and kitchen. I did the dishes and we finished our Christmas puzzle that we
started on Christmas eve. My husband is really good at puzzles and Macy and I
tried to help. Christmas eve he stayed up late working on it too and did a good
deal of it. I think Macy had a good time.
So anyway,
that is it for our Christmas. We only had a few tears, I gave Sally the wrong
make up kit and she was super sad but then happy in the end because the one she
got was better than the one I got for Macy. I think I actually put the wrong
names on them but whatever. I told them that it would be great if they could
just share it and be kind to each other. That is one of the things that I told
them I wanted for Christmas, for them to get along. Well see if I get my
present and wish.
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