December 24th
Saturday night we put the kids in bed at 7pm. We told them they had to go to sleep or Santa might not come to our house.
Naturally as soon as we got them to sleep, Alek and my parents went to the basement and began to wrap presents. I brought from the basement the presents Lily and I had gotten and Lily started wrapping.
Wrapping is too complicated for me, I’m told.
By 11pm we had all the gifts wrapped and placed under the tree.
December 25th
Christmas day was perfect. The kids woke up around 6am and woke me and Lily up. Hearing your kids say “Look, Santa came! Look at all the presents!” when they are 2 and 4 years old is great. The kids tore into their gifts and really had fun. We had the sense to separate their set of gifts from everyone else’s, or they’d have ripped open all the presents. It was great fun and we all exchanged really good gifts.
Every year the whole family heads over to Ed’s house and we all hang out and have a meal with his in-laws. Ed’s family is great, lots of fun, and really good to be with. We had dinner and exchanged gifts. A good time was had by all. The kids love going over to Ed’s place and fooling around with his niece.
Ed shared with us two funny videos from the Internet, Worst Job (warning: NSFW, not to be viewed by small children) and Anti-boredom. We are a bunch of geeks with broadband Internet connections your typical American family.
Lily says:
It was a great Christmas! We all had fun. It’s great to be kids and even better to be their parents. The looks on their faces when they saw the presents Santa put under the tree was classic and priceless.
December 28, 2005 — 6:23 am