It's no wonder my dad has insisted all these years for us to ALWAYS come home for Christmas-and why he is ALWAYS so giddy about it. Having a now "big boy" Jack and little Isla has made Christmas the best ever. It was so exciting to decorate cookies for Santa and leave them out along with a love letter-and to read A Pirate's Night Before Christmas the night before Christmas. It was so fun to say things like, "did you hear that?!" and to watch his face light up with excitement! Christmas morning I listened for Jack to get out of bed and discover that Santa had checked on him during the night, leaving behind a candy cane hanging on the doorknob. "OH BOY" was his reaction as he quickly tore into it. He rushed to our room with it hanging from his mouth screaming, "Santa's here!" The only look of disappointment during the day was once we came down the stairs and there was no sign that Santa had stuck around to say "Hi." Instead of dwelling on it, we quickly gave Jack his stocking and the M&Ms, Slinky and Dora toothbrush made him forget all about it. The rest of the day was full of wrapping paper, yummy food (wooden and real), A Christmas Story and napping. What is wasn't full of was studying for the Boards-thanks Adam-It was a GREAT day.
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