Merry Christmas

Our Christmas week was very eventful in that the stomach flu swept through our house like the plague.  It started with Marin on Monday night and it lasted a really long time I am just starting to feel like myself this week about 10 days after being really sick.  Symeon was the sickest on Wednesday, me on Thursday, Shawn on Christmas night and our housemate all day on Christmas.  We were able to enjoy the holiday despite some really long nights and some really gross clean up.  Christmas Eve we had a great meal which everyone was able to enjoy and Christmas morning we were all fine during the gift opening but all the hours before and after those times were rough.  I went and had a flu shot about 3 weeks ago and the nurse was saying everyone had the stomach flu in her house one Christmas and I though oh that would be terrible little did I know I was about to find out what it would be like.  We were glad we were not traveling during Christmas week we were home which is really the best place to be when you don't feel well.  So here are the highlights of our Christmas minus all the gross stuff!

Christmas Eve

Denise making Christmas Eve dinner it was wonderful

 Decorating sugar cookies

Shawn reading The Night Before Christmas before bed

 The kids looking for Santa

The cookies we left for Santa and the kids decided he might need water rather than milk.  

The Christmas tree after Santa came

Christmas Day

 Babes McGee up early waiting for her brother so why not start the day with a Christmas cookie.  She did bit the kiss off multiple cookies before I caught her.

When it came time to open presents they would open one and play for a long time and then open another it was quite a long time of present opening which was such fun.  

 Symeon's new tool set was quite a hit.  He fixed just about everything he could drill.  Mr Steve would be so proud.  He needed these at Paxton Street Home.

 

 Symeon did so well keeping the gift he bought Shawn a surprise until he handed him the gift and said here Daddy I got you slippers.  It was so sweet and he was so excited to give gifts which warms a Mama's heart.  

 Babes "bought" Symeon this Fireman Sam tee shirt and I think his face tells you how much he loved this gift.  Now he has at least one other shirt he loves as much as his Li'l Kickers uniform.  

Christmas day evening was spent with most of us in bed or laying down because we were all still pretty sick.  Shawn and Denise were the worst and the rest of just had upset stomachs but it was pretty relaxed.  I actually never got dressed which is a first for Christmas.  If we hadn't been so sick it would have been great.  We did play alot and talked to all our family back East.  It was a blessed holiday and I am so grateful for all our blessings.  We still have one more Christmas in CT in January that we are all looking forward to.