Christmas Celebration

Christmas morning was a wonderful family moment for me. To start off I got to sleep all the way through the night. Baby Boy didn't wake up until 6:30am! It was great! I went in and got him and thought I would try sleeping a few more minutes with him laying between Mike and I. I couldn't believe it because the next thing I knew, I woke up at 8:30am!! Wow! We broke records with that! So, when I saw what time it was, I turned on the Christmas music next to the bed and even blasted it. I'm not sure if hubby was too happy, but I didn't care...it was Christmas! I said, "Merry Christmas baby boy! It's your first Christmas!" I then started yelling at my daughter to wake up and come be with us in our bed. She came running in and it was a wonderful family moment...all of us in the big bed together singing Christmas songs.

I then got up and took baby boy in the living room to the manger and said, "Tell Jesus Happy Birthday. It is Jesus' birthday!" He got all excited and started bouncing around and waving at baby Jesus. It was cute. I put him in his high chair to give him his breakfast before opening presents and he started putting his one finger up. I thought oh, dear...he thinks it is his birthday! You see....he just had a birthday a couple weeks ago and turned one. So, since there are presents and we are saying happy birthday, he thinks it is his. lol I told him, "Yes, you are one, but baby Jesus is much older than that!" lol

We had a great day over all. There were some things that happend that if we didn't know the real meaning of Christmas we could have gotten upset about. But all was good and we stay focused on the birthday party and all the blessings we have. We ended the evening with reading the story of Jesus' birth, singing Happy Birthday to Jesus, blowing out the candle, and eating the cake I made with the manger on it while sipping the Christmas tea. (don't make fun of my cake too much because we can't have sugar, just Stevia....I am still trying to find an icing we can make that is pretty. This does taste good, just not pretty. lol) I hope you remembered the real meaning of Christmas this year. I hope you didn't get too caught up in the business of the day and forgot the meaning. We didn't have all the Christmas dinner we usually have or the goodies we usually do because of the money situation, we didn't get to buy presents for each other yet because we had a snow storm that was so bad to get out that nobody could go to work or get out for a couple weeks now, we did't get to watch our traditional Christmas movie because the VCR quit on us, and there were many other things that we usually do, but didn't get to this year, but it was okay because Christmas wasn't about us and we still had a lot to be thankful for. I remembered it was His birthday and what He gave us, I remembered we had eachother, I remembered there were a lot of people out there worse off than us, and I remembered my friends who lost their daughter and what they must be going through along with a lot of others who had lost their loved ones this last year. We can't complain. We can thank Him for His blessings and pray for the others who are suffering. Pray for them, encourage them, invest in their lives if there is a need...be the present to someone who needs a loving hand. There are a lot of needs out there and a lot of broken hearts.
I hope and pray you had a great Christmas and I pray you will have a renewed spirit within you from the things God has taught you through this last year and you will bring it into the new year.