The Hamby House: Christmas at home

Christmas has drawn to a close for another year. It has been very fun, eventful and exciting, but I am TIRED! Christmas Eve found us at home playing in the snow before heading to our church's Eve service with Gram in tow. We came home afterwards for a quick supper, then changed into our new Christmas jammies and drove around enjoying the holiday lights. Finally we came back home to settle in for the night - well, the kids anyway. We adults stayed up to "help Santa" with his deliveries and do as much of the meal preparing as we could for the next day. We finally got to bed close to 1am, but Mitzi wasn't much in the mood for sleeping, so we didn't get much either. The kids were up at about 7:45 the next morning and we unwrapped gifts immediately, of course! The girls were thrilled with their dollhouse that Papa helped the elves build! After the wrapping paper was cleaned up, Gram and I headed to the kitchen to get started on our Christmas Dinner, complete with all the trimmings. We spent about 3 hours in there, but the meal turned out great! My extended family joined us about 1pm to enjoy it. Later in the afternoon, Paul's parents stopped by to visit and meet Mitzi. After all our company had gone, we pretty much crashed on the nearest available couch. I spent the better part of today lounging in my jammies watching more snow fall - it felt great not having anything to do or any place to go. I needed a relaxing holiday from my hectic holiday! Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, full of all of the joys of the season. May God's grace and peace bless you in the new year!

our Snowman