Christmas Eve

On Christmas Eve we had a special dinner with my sister Lora, her daughter Sage, and my parents. We tried to make it "fancy", and the kids loved it! As a matter of fact, they wanted to repeat the fancy dinner on Christmas Day (which we did), and on my birthday (which we didn't).

Maddi adores her cousin Sage. She can say "Sage", but she can't say "Lora" so we taught Maddi to call Lora, "Sage's mom".

After dinner, we read the Christmas story and sang songs, following the program that David's dad wrote up. The kids acted out the story with puppets and Little People nativity.

After that, we opened up our matching pj's. Dave got shamrocks instead (I didn't think he would like the pink ones).

Then it was time to get ready for bed. We left out cookies and carrots and a letter to Santa. It was such an exciting evening and we were all exhausted and ready for a little Christmas magic.