Merry Christmas!
January 2, 2007
Our little family had a wonderful Christmas this year. The celebration started on the 23rd and didn’t end until the evening of the 25th. It was filled with family and friends and generosity all around.
Though Xander didn’t really realize it, he had a very good Christmas. I think I will always remember it as the easiest Christmas we will have. I didn’t have to hide any of his gifts - they stayed on the kitchen table for weeks before I wrapped them. I didn’t need to stay up late wrapping gifts on Christmas eve, everything was wrapped well in advance. I didn’t need to worry about what gifts Santa was bringing, and which ones came from Zach and me. And, I didn’t need to worry about where to hang stockings, or what to put in them.
I think next Christmas will be very different from this one, and from every one that Zach and I have had together, but I’m sure that we’ll enjoy Xander actually being able to open his own gifts (we didn’t really have a strategy for who would open Xander’s gifts this year, and he wasn’t at all interested in helping).
I hope that everyone out there had an equally wonderful Christmas and enjoyed the time that they had with friends and family!
I know that some people dread the holiday season - interacting with parents, siblings, in-laws, extended family, etc. I love it. I look forward to that time just before Thanksgiving until the new year. This year was no different. The three of us (
On Friday we had our second Thanksgiving with my family. My sister volunteered to change diapers on multiple occasions (somehow she got “lucky” with poopie diapers more than once that day…) My grandmother got a chance to feed Xander a bottle and we got some excellent pictures of everyone holding the baby. Later that afternoon my family watched Xander while Zach and I went to a movie - which was a strange experience for both of us, since it was the first time Xander had been apart from both parents at the same time. It was nice to have some time to ourselves though. Xander was fine, and behaved well for my family, so overall it was a positive experience.