Somehow two weeks off at Christmas just isn't enough. We don't travel anymore since our 13 hour odyssey from Prince George a few years. Instead we get the parents to come to us. (A good thing this year since Carter decided to have some sort of terrible cold that had him sick and cranky for 10 days with a high fever for 5 of those days.) I've lost track of whose 'turn' it is but this year Barb and Reg were down before Christmas up to Boxing day. We had a fondue with Barb, Reg, Corey, Carmen and Ron on Christmas eve. (No fire this year.) Christmas morning was chaotic with wrapping paper flying everywhere. I won't mention everyone's favourite gifts but I'm sure Carter's was not they grey pants he got. His exact words were "Pants!?!? That's just weird!"
On Christmas day we had everyone over again for traditional turkey Christmas dinner. The kids spent the entire day playing with all their new toys and surprisingly there were very few melt downs. This year Santa's pajama theme was Penguins and he even knew to give a set to Kristen. We didn't get a white Christmas this year and I'm starting to think that the prediction that this year will be 5 degrees cooler than normal is not going to come to fruition. We've been wet, windy and plus 7 for most of December with very few frost days.
Christmas II came on December 29th. This year it was just my Dad as my Mom had to stay in Prince George to help my grandma who fell and injured her knee on Christmas Day. We opened gifts from my parents and brother and the kids had another day of playing with their new toys.
It's now New Years Eve and Kerry and I went mattress shopping. We've now reached the point where we'd rather have one nice gift for both of us and a good night's sleep was first on the list.
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