Breaking Up Christmas

We broke up the day into a few activities. First order of business in our household is to check out the stockings to see what goodies were left for us... while coffee is being made of course! Once we all have a hot cup of java, we open gifts under the tree, spend some time hanging out and talking and then I get busy in the kitchen preparing breakfast. Traditionally we have Eggs Benedict with Holiday (Hollandaise) Sauce, we continued the tradition today.

We gathered the remaining gifts and went off to our respective next stops... SK to her mom's... Richard, Toby and I to Jen & Jason's. The traveling today was great... warm and clear so no trouble driving up the interstate.

Once at Jen's, we got to see Avery's new train set... Santa's elves made an amazing train table for the train to be set up on... looks just like the ones in the bookstores! We had quite a bit of fun playing with that. Then it was time to open MORE GIFTS... these were from Bryan and Erin. They did a good job keeping to a theme with A's presents... bananas and MONKEYS... wind up monkey, puppet monkey, bathtime monkey, and banana bath products! Next, you guessed it, time for a BATH to try out the fun products. Avery smelled like banana taffy candy by the time he was done! We had a little lunch, colored with markers and used John Deere stickers and then it was time for us to head home. Toby went back home too.

The rest of our afternoon and evening involve settling down at our computers, relaxing and reflecting on all the fun we've had this month as we've used our creative talents and energies to celebrate this season of giving and sharing. Hope you all had a joyous and relatively stress free holiday!

Avery with his new collection of MONKEYS!

Breaking Up Christmas is from the Fiddler's Fakebook.