When we moved to Washington, we had to give up spending Christmas Eve at my parent's house. It was (and still is, even without us) everything a holiday gathering should be - a casual potluck dinner with my mom's decorating touch and my dad's big extended family. I'll be honest - Christmas Eve is the ONLY night of the year I ever wish we still lived in California. I miss my family and the convenience of knowing that we could spend Christmas eve with everyone else and still wake up in our own beds the next morning. That's the only reason we never travel at Christmas - a firm, long-standing tradition of Making Christmas Morning A Big Effing Deal.
Unfortunately, we had to give up a few more traditions this year (cards, parties, outdoor lights, gifts for anyone not named Alex and Genoa), but we're focusing on the traditions that we've managed to keep. The snowy footprints from Santa.
The cookies and milk.
The insanely-excited zombie people.And the HOUSE. Earlier this week the Fedex man brought us the Very Best Christmas Gift
Ever: a forbearance letter from the bank saying we don't have to pay
our mortgage again until April.
MERRY CHRISTMAS INDEED.
Yowza! That's a super gift! I guess there IS a Santa Claus (or maybe there was a 'Santa clause' in your mortgage papers, yuk, yuk!)
Love Santa's snowy footprints, and your kids are super-cute!
Merry Christmas, thanks for the great blogging all year long!
Posted by: Leah Rubin | December 25, 2009 at 03:30 PM
Merry Christmas indeed! God Bless us Everyone!
:)
And a happy new year to you!
Posted by: Melissa | December 25, 2009 at 07:28 PM
Merry Christmas! To you and those sweet kids.
Posted by: She Likes Purple | December 26, 2009 at 12:25 PM
YAY!!!!! So excited about your mortgage news. Merry Christmas to your family. It brought tears to my eyes when I read this.
(my second thought, of course, was "thank goodness for Obama's economic plan! ha!)
Posted by: Amy H | December 26, 2009 at 05:41 PM
Great gift. :) Merry to you guys too.
Posted by: Melting Mama | December 26, 2009 at 06:02 PM
Snowy footprints? LOVE.
Merry Christmas!!!
Posted by: Jen | December 26, 2009 at 09:40 PM
Loving the snowy Santa footprints, what a great idea. Doesn't matter that we've only had one white Christmas in my lifetime in Seattle. :-)
Posted by: Cass | December 26, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Hot Damn! That is fantastic!!!! Merry Christmas!
Love the footprint idea. It's great!
Miss you lots!
Posted by: Deneen | December 27, 2009 at 08:32 PM
That is fantastic news with the mortgage! I love the idea of snowy footprints too. Hope you had a great Christmas!
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