Christmas at River Ford Farm
For a kid, there's no time quite like Christmas. Anders had two Grandmas and one Uncle visiting for the holiday this year! There was lots of preparatory activity for the holiday celebration. As previously mentioned, Anders did get to put some additional ornaments on the tree so that it was "more interesting." He must have type-A parents, because he put ornaments on the tree grouped by type.
On Christmas Eve, Anders and Corinne made cream cheese sugar cookies for Santa. I think Anders's favorite part was eating the raw scraps. (He must take after his father.)
Anders wrote a note to Santa to leave with the cookies under the tree. And he made sure to tell Santa how he has been good "all of his life."
Bet you can't tell which cookie Corinne decorated.
Then, it was off to bed for all of us. Eventually.
1:07am
On Christmas morning we all slept in until about 9am, including Anders. No, I'm not kidding. (And please, watch your language around the children!) I don't know what we did right, but Anders loves his sleep as much as we do, and we take full advantage of it.
For us, Christmas is an all day event. We take our time opening stockings, then individually open presents.
Yes, that's a 40 in Leif's stocking. Santa knows.
Anders gets so engrossed by each present he opens that he has to stop and play with each one immediately, something we encourage. The rest of us just sit around and enjoy it.
We try to be as practical as we can with gifts. Sometimes that results in things which others would call "unusual". For example, my gifts included six books checked out from the local library and two of my own pants mended. Most of the books were not ones that I had heard of, so now I have a list of books to add to my list. I might even be able to finish a few of them before they are due back. But if not, I know where to get them again. And I don't have to figure out where to put them!
Anders really enjoys music and has a great ear and voice for it. So this Christmas we decided to introduce him to his first instrument: a recorder. Independently, Grandma Donna got him a new horn for his bike. So, of course this happened.
Hot Buttered Rum made another appearance this year, warming our evenings.
We had a lovely, relaxing holiday with family. What more could you ask for? Actually, snow would have been nice. But I guess there's always next year.
- Mike, Corinne and Anders
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