Friday, January 4, 2013

Belated Christmas Post

I know.  I'm late.  It's already 2013 and I'm just now writing about Christmas LAST year.  Life... :)

This year we broke tradition a bit. We didn't go to sleep on Christmas Eve awaiting all of the presents brought by "Mommy and Daddy Santa Clause" the next morning.  Instead, we celebrated the 12 Days of Christmas.  Every day we exchanged a certain amount of gifts or did something fun as a family, rather than opening ALL of the presents to and from 11 people at once.  It was much less stressful, and I enjoyed the holidays so much more than I have in past years!  Winter is my favorite time of the year, but with it comes the craziness of the holidays.  Doing this new way of celebrating Christmas allows us to enjoy each other and savor this time as a big 'ol family all living in the same house, while it lasts!
Christmas socks and jammies :)

For one of Mom's big presents from Daddy, we all went to City Church International in downtown Dallas.  CCI is a family integrated church in that we were a part of before we moved to Waxahachie, and the drive became impractical.  The candlelight service is always so beautiful.  It was my favorite part of Christmas this year.  We got to be with 'tribal' friends who live far away, dear friends we don't get to see very often.  It was so refreshing to be with people who totally get our lifestyle.


Romans, Ruizes, Weirs...so precious to all of us :)
11 stockings hanging on our awesome Victorian fireplace.  It was broken all last winter, and we had it repaired just in time for the cold weather, which makes me very happy.  Life is good in this home.

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