My “adopted mom” wrote this a couple of Christmases ago and it might just be my favorite thing she’s written…and I have a lot of favorites when it comes to her.
These words came pouring from her heart as a prayer one morning and it is goose-bump inducing beauty. PLEASE (yes, I’m begging!) take a minute to slow down and soak in the pieces of the Christmas scene. It will be well worth your time. ***click on the green link below***
Since Christmas Eve will end up being a little busy for us with church and all, we decided to let the kids open a fun little present tonight, on Christmas Eve’s eve. I put together a box with new pajamas, snuggly animals, popcorn, pop, cocoa and a little note saying that we were going to have pizza, pop and popcorn for supper while we watched a special Christmas movie!
Sawyer woke up with a fever this morning and hasn’t felt great today. Poor girl. I think the present made her feel a little better.
She was really excited about her new jammies and her teddy! She has a soft place for all things cozy and cuddly.
Brother looked pretty cute in his santa jammies, too. Who doesn’t love a little something on a baby’s tush!?
We had to take pictures in front of the tree, with our new animal friends, no less.
Daddy read one of Sawyer’s favorite Christmas books while I got the pizza ready and Wryder sort of paid attention.
One of Sawyer’s Boz movies had a preview for a movie called The Very First Noel. We are BIG Boz fans and it’s produced by the same company so I assumed it would be good, but I couldn’t find it anywhere! They aren’t producing them anymore and the only used ones I could find were $35. YIKES. Enter YouTube. We found it online and I am sooooo glad we did! If you have the chance to watch it, DO IT! It’s the Christmas story told from a wiseman’s perspective and is incredibly well done. Sawyer loved it, as did the rest of us.
I love having special time with my little family. My parents always did a good job of making Christmas memorable for us and I hope Sawyer and Wryder say the same about us one day.
HE is worth making a fuss about…as are they.
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but Wrex is a really great dad. He loves his kiddos and he loves to bring home surprises and give them good gifts! (Remember the rabbit?) Tonight was no exception. As he was driving home from the sale barn, he stopped at the appliance store and brought this home…
Is there anything better in a kid’s world than a huge cardboard box?! I think not! He got out the razor blade and went to town cutting windows and a door…
We got out the crayons and markers and started making it cute! We put shutters on the windows…
and planted flowers by the entrance…
Daddy even made her a key!
She decided she wanted it to be restaurant that she would call “Sawyer’s” so we wrote that on the door…
and we moved the play kitchen in from the toy room so she could get those orders out!
Wryder got to help cook a little bit, but he had to stay out of the kitchen for tonight. 🙂 I’m sure once the new wears off he might get invited in…
She had a grand ole time and Wrex and I “ate” until we our “devit” cards were maxed out!!
I’m so blessed to have such a thoughtful, caring husband. It delights my soul to know that he thinks of us during his day-to-day activities…enough so to go out of his way to haul a huge box home just to make his little girl smile. He’s a keeper, that one…just ask Sawyer.
As we were eating our real supper tonight, she saved her green beans for last. Wrex said, “Eat ’em up so you’ll get big and strong,” to which she replied with a quivering lip, “I don’t want to get big because then I won’t fit on your lap!”
Oh, honey, trust me – you’ll always fit on daddy’s lap…he’ll make room for you, no matter how big you get. He’s got it bad for you, sweet girl…and we? We’ve got it good…