Christmas 2015

This Christmas is special. Not that it's not always special... but this year it's a different special.

This is the FIRST CHRISTMAS in Toby and I's relationship (married 8, together 2) that we will be in OUR home on Christmas morning!

It's thrilling and when I "realized" it, it made me feel like a kid again!

But, also, I already feel like a kid again! I am totally living through my kids right now! I am sooooooooo excited for Santa to come! Eek!! We are gonna leave cookies and milk, and make reindeer food, and make santa bootprints,and bake cookies, and drive around and look at lights, and get up at 4am, and I just might wear a Santa hat while I'm setting presents out. Maybe.

This year has been a lot of fun! Our elf, "Cecil" is back! We read the story on Thanksgiving night and the next morning, there he was on the living room shelf. Cece is still a little hesitant, but she is warming up. Leo doesn't seem to care if Cecil sees him throwing a fit or not. But, he loves to hunt for him in the morning. Toby and I have been really good at remembering to move him. Cecil has been really good at re-locating himself all around the house. On top of the kitchen light, in Cece's room, in Leo's room, sitting with Joseph and Mary in the stable, on the mantle, on the knife butcher block, on top of the coat tree. That little spit-fire is everywhere!!

And...no. I don't get extra creative with the elf. I wish I could tell you that I was "that person" who stages hilarious scenes for our elf..... but dangit if I can't remember to move that dang thing every night, let alone construct a brilliantly staged scene. And I don't want to clean up the mess.

You wanna know what I really love? What really "melts my butter" as Truvy would say. Ya wanna know what makes me wink seductively at Toby and walk past him in the hallway and squeeze his bum? You wanna know?

I LOVE when Toby moves the elf.

 It turns me on.

I think it is so sweet that when I forget, he's got my back. He will be damned if he's gonna let the kids wake up and see the elf in the same place as yesterday. He also thinks of creative places too. Who knew? Anyway..... I think it's adorable. 

My how our love life has changed.....

The kid's Christmas lists are fun this year! Here are the requests for 2015.....

Leo- " 'mote" control car and a police car
Cece- purple "mote" control car, make-up, eyeshadow, lipstick, teddy bear

So Santa listened...,.. Leo will get his (2) requests and Cece will get hers as well. The purple "mote" control car was a last minute addition and was a little tricky to find! But I did it! It is being shipped from China today! Not kidding. Straight up serious. I'm expecting it Christmas Eve.

Obviously, I added a few items to their stock piles lists.

Leo will also be receiving some soccer shin guards, soccer socks, a 100 pack of cars, bedtime book, a flying helicopter, a train table, Hungry Hungry Hippos, flashcards,  Chapstick, "Engine Turtles" movie, a car track, a TV chair, a punching bag and gloves, ear buds, PJs, socks,  a soccer ball, and an Olaf costume

Cece will also be receiving an Elsa costume, a shit ton a bunch of make up, earrings and necklace, "Frozen" jenga, bedtime book, a life "size doll, "Cinderella" and "Sleeping Beauty" movie, Elsa wig, hair accessories, a game (I forget which one! Connect Four?), PJ's, socks,  a TV chair, and ear buds.

Toby and I had about a 37 minute conversation about how we are gonna set out presents. Who will do it? When to do it? How to do it? 

We've never done it before, remember.....

After several fights it was decided that I will set gifts out. I will do it as soon as Leo is asleep. (Cece will already be asleep. In her own bed. Count on it. She's the easy one. Toby will have to lay with Leo, probably in our bed. ) I will bring all presents up and down the basement stairs. (not my idea... but I gave up.) Falling, making a loud ruckus, and breaking something is a HUGE possibility.... but Toby insisted.

So, this Christmas is one that I will always remember. I will always remember waking up in our own home on Christmas morning for the first time. I hope it's snowing! That will just be perfect! It will feel just like Bedford Falls!!