Christmas Eve 2009

Christmas Eve & Day had numerous last minutes changes, but best of all, was the improvement in Uncle Tommys' health. We look forward to an Eve celebration at their home next year! This year, Brooklyn & I met mom & went to St. Joes for Christmas Eve mass. Haven't been there since 8th grade graduation, & it was nice to see several people I grew up with & their new families. This was the childrens' mass & a lot of singing occured, which Brooklyn enjoyed bopping her head to. Of course the books of Clifford meets Santa & Pat the Bunny helped as well. The children playing Nintendo DS, burping, telling jokes & eating beef jerky (which B about leaped out of my arms to try & get ahold of) in the pew directly behind us did not help! After mass, we headed back to moms for a nice dinner. One advantage to having a pack rat mom is that your child has ALL KINDS of things to play with! Mom has washed all of our old baby doll clothes & repacked them in our barbie suitcase along with my old cabbage patch dolls & a few others. She piled all of them in the center of the room as well as several stuffed animals & just enjoyed collecting her 'babies.'
Putting on her Christmas PJ's, we bundled her up & headed home- in plenty of time for Santas' big arrival.
Pics forthcoming- and as a side note, Sean isn't pictured b/c he had to work today...but next year his loving wife has suggested (strongly, strongly requested) that next year he take the day off & join us at church. :)