Christmas Day was full of excitement and a bit of sickness, too. Ben and Tate were the first to get up so we roused Ada Grace and Cora so that we could all enjoy Christmas morning together. Cora wasn't feeling so well and wasn't much into it. Actually, she was really pitiful. We first went through the stockings, then we started on the Santa gifts. A few years ago, Santa quit wrapping presents for our family. Maybe he is going green. Maybe he knows that there are anal parents in this house who couldn't handle the mass amounts of flying wrapping paper on Christmas morning. Perhaps, Santa himself is also anal and is just as concerned as parents are that items are going to accidentally get thrown away or lost during the mass unwrapping and throwing away of wrapping paper. Or, maybe he just doesn't really care for wrapping presents.
Anyway, a few years ago Santa started putting the kids' presents in laundry baskets, unwrapped. The kids like it and we LOVE it. We are able to see each of their expressions when they see what they have gotten, we don't have to be worried with getting the wrapping paper up and out of the way, and it is just SO. MUCH.MORE. ENJOYABLE. One year, Santa even took all the toys out of the box and we didn't have to wrangle with those stinking little twisties and other torture devices trying to get the toys out of the box on Christmas morning. Santa must have been especially busy this year because he left that for us to do on Christmas morning. But, you know, we gotta give the big guy a break...he's a busy fellow.
Here is Ada Grace's basket of goodies....
Here is Cora's basket of toys...
Here we are with all of our baskets in the middle of the floor, looking glorious, early on Christmas morning...
Ben's Christmas basket...
Tate's basket of gadgets...(I know, I know... Tate's basket is not overflowing like the others, but big kids get little toys with big price tags...if you know what I'm sayin')
We pulled the baskets out to the middle of our living room and the kids started digging through them. Cora mainly just looked briefly, then asked if we could turn the T.V. on in the bedroom so that she could lay back down. Pitiful. Poor girl just felt yucky. So, we let her go back to bed and continued to open up the boxes of toys for the other kids.
Our family came over for lunch and to see the kids' new toys. Then, we had such a great surprise! A White Christmas! It started snowing! Ada's first Christmas and it was a White Christmas! Ah, the joy! 
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