White Christmas

This year my son got his wish and we had this for Christmas. We got over 10 inches of the fluffy white stuff.

HR pointed out that this is only the 2nd white Christmas he's had. Ever. I'm kind of partial to the decorating the cactus needles out front sort of Christmas, but some of this falling softly All. Day. Long. does have a peaceful quality to it though.

But, that's the day I knew for sure, without a doubt that I was sick. I'd been fighting it. But this was crawl up in a hole, chicken noodle soup, can't get off the couch sick. For me, anything to do with Christmas was done.

My poor Love. He got ski thermals under the tree and socks in his stocking. Seriously! [At least I had picked that up for him while doing all the other shopping early on!] And yet, as I moaned and groaned (when I could), he managed to watch the baby, take care of our son [Can an active 10 year old be more to handle than a baby? You bet ya! That snow was the best thing!], do the laundry, wrap the last gifts, make the meals, wash the dishes, clean the kitchen, put the kiddos to bed, get them up, have presents under the tree for Christmas morning ... and essentially make Christmas happen for all of us.

Never mind that he forgot the shirt for TA, or rolled her pants to her knees...

Man, do I luurrrrrrve that man!

And you know what I was forced to do? Sit back and do nothing. Not the best and most comfortable way for a mom to do Christmas. You know what I mean! But, really, it simply just cut away all the fluff - the last minute scrambling, the perfecting of this and that - and let us focus as a family on just being that - a family that had time for dominos - both the game and the German candy kind. Nice. Yummy. And as perfect as it needed to be this year.

[hhhmmm ... yes, that is the baby bouncer seat, HR.]

Tomorrow we'll be catching up some of the week before Christmas stuff: We're building our gingerbread house! I'll be able to get my Love his gifts. And we'll  be continuing Christmas with more family up north. I'll catch up with you when we return after the New Year.

So, to all of You, a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! May our Lord keep you and bless you.