Christmas recap

It's been a busy kind of Christmas season. Today is relaxing with Joseph watching T.V. Sarah watching a movie and Rachel at a friend's house, which leaves me time to myself. Christmas Eve, we cleaned the house, delivered cookies and treats to some neighbors, watched White Christmas, and went to church. The service was a little different, Pastor Ray had elem. kids dressed up as the naivity scene. The message was like reality T.V. Sarah was the star. After reading Twas the night before Christmas, the girls went right to bed. Joseph had already gone to bed, he was fighting a temp. for a couple of days and wasn't feeling so great. Christmas morning I was the first one awake at 8:20. Rachel soon woke up and got her brother and sister awake. We have a tradition that before we open gifts we read the Christmas story and pray. We use a children's book, so the kids can have something to look at and easily understood. It was Sarah's turn to read this year. The big gifts this year was a guitar for Sarah, a Jedi robe for Joseph, and a Bitty Baby for Rachel. We cleaned up a little before my sister and family came over for brunch and to exchange gifts, We did something different this year and exchanged names. It worked out well for my sister since all her kids are old enough to have jobs, they bought there own gifts. I of course did all the shopping and wrapping for us. The kids played and watched movies until it was time to go to Mark and Marlene's to exchange gifts with the Mettes families, and dinner. Sarah had a hard time even though I warned her that there wouldn't be many gifts for her (the gift from her grandparents was a session of gymnastic classes she really wanted), so unlike everyone else she just had a few gifts to open. After a yummy dinner, the social butterfly did my hair for me! Blue and reddish streaks. It was fun, I think she really loved doing it. We stayed and visited for a little while (watched a candle burn completely down too.) The next morning we slept in, I watched the Barbie movie with the girls then took a nap, I think I'm getting a cold too. I got up and pushed myself to get out of the house. I wanted to look for a few things, and go to the grocery store. While at the store I decided I did not feel like cooking dinner so I got a sub and some chips. (I've given up on the South Beach diet until January 2nd) After dinner we all sat down as a family and watched Star Wars 3. Tuesday was laundry day, and I had to have my blood checked which of course was off again. At 1 o'clock it felt like it should be bed time already. I took the kids and Rachel's friend to the drive in where we saw Narnia and Chicken Little. Rachel was kinda bored with Narnia. We got home about midnight. Rachel's friend spent the night, the girls were up till after 2 in the morning. UGH! Yesterday, I took Rachel's friend to her grandmother's, then laid down for an hour, then we went to the movies. We met Mark and Marlene and their 3 youngest kiddos and saw Cheaper by the Dozen 2. We had seen the first one 2 years ago together too. It was cute, everyone liked it. We got home and I started to make dinner and Pat wanted the phone book to call his aunt, I wasn't sure where it was, so I had him take over cooking while I looked. He burned the meat, I was mad, I tossed it out, and we didn't eat. Sarah was complaining of an earache and went to bed. We hosted the annual game night, Sarah got up and was fine, even though my sister babied her. We played Imagine iff and Taboo, It turned out the be a fun night.