Livin' Our Dream...: Christmas fun!

Every year, Christmas looks a little different around our house and this year was no exception. Mum, Katie, Daniel, Sophia, Kenneth and I gathered on December 24th for breakfast and instead of exchanging gifts with everyone, we each brought one wrapped gift and Katie was in charge of our first Christmas gift exchange since it was her idea. It was a lot of fun and makes so much sense for our family since we want to do something for each other, but none of us really needs anything. This will be our new tradition, I think! I did stockings this year for each of them and I suppose I may keep doing that. This year they only contained little trinkets from our travels, but they are fun to buy for and I think they enjoy getting them. After our game, the cooking began and the rest of the family joined us for a wonderful meal, desserts, visiting and Candlelight Communion for Christmas Eve. Christmas day was just Mum, Katie, Kenneth and I since Daniel and Sophia went to her family celebration so we had a quiet day but Santa did leave each of us a little something under the tree...🎄😀 Another wonderful Christmas celebrating Christ's birth and family, just the way it should be.

This is GMa getting the best Christmas present EVER, even though it made her cry...Katie is moving back to Bossier City!!! We are all just over the moon excited to finally have our Gypsy Nurse back in town!!!!

She's so jealous because she thinks that I like Daniel's childhood Christmas art more than hers and Daniel loves it!

But really, these two things go on my refrigerator every year since 1992 and I love them both!! And it warms my heart that my kids love each other, too even though back in the '90s I had to assure Katie that her brother loved her even if he didn't like her at the time!