DH has to work. Boohoo! Very odd feeling for a christmas eve. We baked our gingerbread men, kids decorated...let's just say 'Santa' will not be eating the cookies this year, but rather throwing them away! WAY too much frosting, yuck! In any case, they will be gone before the kids wake up in the morning.
Leah made sure to tell Mommy to ask Santa to leave her Dora Mermaid dolly. I assured her I would. And, Beau is staking it out in his room with his flashlight, planning on catching 'Santa' so he can share the cookies with him. LOL. That boy! He says, "If Santa runs out of those shoot guns before he gets to my house, I guess I just won't get anything at all!" Translation: If he doesn't get a shoot gun, he doesn't WANT anything at all! Well, atleast he has his heart set on one single thing vs. everything he see's.
Drew is still trying to figure out, if Santa came early with her DS, then what will he leave for her tonight? And, here DH seemed to firmly believe that she no longer believed in Santa. Grace even had nerve to ask if 'Santa' was still going to fill thier stockings. A little paranoia setting in?
It really sucks to be in that stage of no longer believing I guess.
Ironically, 24 hours of A Christmas Story is on tonight. Beau even became quite interested in watching it with me earlier. Mostly intrigued by the fact that that boy had also asked 'Santa' for a shoot gun.
I took the kids on a little drive through the area to see christmas lights, they had fun. Leah didn't want to come home. Beau just wanted to stay home. We probably drove around for about 1/2 hour, and as I turned on the road to home, what do you know? I ran over a dead skunk, thus filling the van with that awful stench! Beau kept saying, "That stink is makin' me think I'm gonna puke!" Oh, nothing, not even a terrible horrible baby diaper is worse than a car full of skunk! I just hope it mostly dissipates overnight since we are traveling to my parents house tomorrow. What luck, huh?
Just as my Grandma Georgia used to do for me and my sister when we were small, I read 'T'was The Night Before Christmas' to the little ones (the only ones that would listen). We have a pop-up version, it came with a read along cd as well. There is a page where Santa has his bag and it opens up with little paper toys that stick into holes in the page where the stockings are. Beau and Leah loved this! They kept rearranging them. Beau tried to sneak off with the tiny paper train, Leah the paper candy cane. Little stinkers!
Well, off to play 'Santa'...and do laundry.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!