Christmas Morning

We enjoyed a quiet Christmas at home this year with just the five of us. Christmas Eve we attended services at the Strand Theatre in downtown Marietta for our new church, Sanctuary. We came home and spent a quiet evening watching a movie (or my family did) while I wrapped presents and then headed to bed. I was so happy to be allowed to sleep until 8:00 which was the absolute latest that Maddie was going to allow anyone to sleep.

Yeast Sausage rolls and Cinnamon buns in the oven, we sat down to read the Christmas story before opening presents. "And there were in the same country, shepherds keeping watch over their flocks by night." I never tire of hearing those words and we have made a tradition since the girls were very little that we would always read the Christmas story on Christmas morning before opening gifts. A way to bring us together and to remind us what was important.

Every year, I can see a little less of the Christmas tree. They are growing way too fast.