What a Wonderful Weekend!

Christmas came and went this year, leaving us happy, content and tired. 

There were gifts exchanged and opened.

Dinner with my family.

And of course, Santa Claus visited.  I even have proof:

Forgive the lighting.  I live in a big old Victorian era home with high ceilings and not a ton of lights.  Not to mention that we’ve got gray skies without a hint of blue most days this time of year.

Little Man got his heart’s desire a couple of times over.

Where do these outrageous faces come from?  I swear my son doesn’t look like this normally.  This is what I get for asking him to smile.

Besides presents, there was loot in his stocking.  A lot of loot.

He noticed he got an orange in his stocking, just like Laura Ingalls Wilder got when she was a child.  I thought this was cool because 1.) He’d just read about it in school and 2.) I did it on purpose to see if he’d draw the correlation.  Mission accomplished! (We took it to the kitchen and used my manual juice extractor.  He drank the 1/4 cup of OJ with his breakfast.  No scurvy here!)

The freeze dried ice cream sandwich was actually pretty tasty.  He opened it and we all tried a piece.  I wonder if all ‘space food’ tastes this good.

Santa also introduced Little Man to the tasty joy of roasted peanuts in the shell.  They were a huge hit.

I didn’t take pictures of my family at dinner.  I was too busy being the hostess.  They enjoyed themselves though, and the huge feast my mother and I worked on together.

I think one of the coolest things about the whole gift thing and Little Man is that he plays with the shark attack set more than the Nintendo.  I love that he pretends and uses his imagination.  I hope I can always encourage that.

How was your holiday? I want to share in your happiness too, even the lurkers!

S.