Everyone sacked out nicely by about 11pm, and Dylan and I woke at 10:30 on Christmas morning! And the kids were still asleep!! Mom and Dad kept laughing that it was the most anticlimactic Christmas morning ever - who has tiny children in a house and gets going with presents after noon?! It was really lovely, though, when they did wake. We didn't have to worry about when to get them to nap, and we went through the present piles each person had divvied out to them by Paul slowly and nicely. What a fun time with the littles! Santa brought Pauly his first big-boy bike and Ada a doll house + a driveway scooter each, which will stay here because of Nana & Pappy's excellent driveway.
We enjoyed a delicious pork roast dinner with roasted veggies and crawfish cornbread - yum! It was bizarre to sit down to a meal I took no part in preparing! It was beautiful and yummy. We just slowed the afternoon away, reading books, playing with toys, and snacking.
And we finally got to ham it up with Christmas carols! What a beautiful way to celebrate Christ's birthday!
And then, glorious sleep. A very merry - jet-lagged - Christmas, indeed.
Enjoy that rest! Wishing you much peace and deep sleeps after your journeying. Lovely to see your growing family and enjoy you all. I wish there were a way to move New Orleans closer to Cudgee.... without risking tectonic plates to collide & massive earthquakes etc etc. Rest up! I look forward to reading the new blog. So glad you are making another niece/nephew for me. They are gorgeous.
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