The Day Before the Day Before Christmas

Kids are playing in their room nicely together, so figured I would stop here a few minutes. Its been a quiet day. I'm commiting a mommy sin and letting my kids watch some tv while I get work done around here. In all fairness its Netflix on our SmartTv. So I'm able to control what they watch. Is it bad that while I know we should probably do more productive activities, that I dont feel all that horrible? Ha, Ive gotta get this stuff done at some point! My goal is to have the living clean and picked up so I can pull out everything and get it wrapped after the kids are in bed tonight. Not to mention I would like Christmas morning pictures to not look as though a tornado hit our living room recently!

So these are a 8 of the 15 Christmas cards I decided to handcraft. Budget friendly and in my opinion, very cute(but that might be biased).

I guess since we are talking about Christmas, I could post a Christmas questionnaire answer...

 

What does your family do on Christmas Eve?

Well, you see, my husband is the assistant manager at a nearby Walmart. For the most part his job is a good fit for our family. The downfall, of course is how many holidays he works on. He will be working Christmas Eve until the store closes for Christmas Day(so greatful they do that!). But, I refuse to complain for a minute about this. Im so thankful for him being able to go work hard every day. It allows me the luxury to be home with my babies and without it we would have the concerns about Christmas.

 

Do you meet up with extended family at Christmas?

Every year for since my dad married my step mom(I hate using that term, she was an incredible mother to me but for the sake of the explanation, I decided to be specific)after opening Christmas gifts in our own home Christmas morning we would gather there for lunch. They were married when I was in the 1st grade(January). Im pretty sure we went that Decmeber right before too.  It always included a big beautiful spread of food and fun family gift exchange. Other stops and traditionas have come and gone, but that has gone on every year. I love it and always look forward to it. My mom's sister comes in a couple time a year from Georgia and thats where I get to see her. She is such a fun person to be around, so I always get excited to see her that day.

 

Im so anxious Christmas is just a day away. I love getting to go see family that day. This year its going to be a little tiring. Stephen has to be at work 6am the day after Christmas. Christmas lunch is 3 hours away. Going to be a lot of driving that day and I would imagine as it gets later, grumpy kids. However, to me its the one day I find worth it.