Twas the Night Before Christmas

Christmas Eve was very different this year.  No extended family and no church.  It felt "off" but it was also a cozy, quiet night just the 5 of us that we will probably never have the chance to have again.  We were reminded by Ms. Rebecca during the children's online church service that on Christmas Eve it was just Jesus, Mary and Joesph.  No extra people, no parties, no craziness and it was perfectly alright.  It really drove home the fact that we had everything that we needed right in our home that night.

 

Homemade cinnamon rolls ready for the morning.

We decided to still get dressed up for the occasion.  The kids had the cutest Christmas outfits this year and we couldn't let them go to waste.

Church from home.

                       

Since we weren't having dinner at the Wolfers this year, the kids each picked hat they wanted to eat and we set up a nice dinner in the dining room.  The boys chose steak, asparagus and tater tots.  The girls and I had chicken noodle soup at Quinn's request.  

I had a nice surprise when the Goodmans stopped by with the nice gift of a cozy Calypso sweatshirt, personalized notepad and a cute rainbow ornament for the tree.

In their pjs and ready for Santa.  We read the Night Before Christmas, the big kids wrote a note for Santa, we set out cookies, milk and carrots and we were off to bed.