In our house, Christmas Day leisurely begins with egg casserole and the opening of stockings while people ready themselves for group gift opening. After Bethany arrived, breakfast was cleaned up, and drinks were poured, everyone settled into the seating area of their choice for gift opening. One by one, we open a gift--youngest to oldest--so that we can all see who got what and really enjoy the gift. There were many wonderful gifts this year (honestly, that's true every year). Some were thoughtfully purchased while others were lovingly created.
Riley handcrafted a wooden gun, which was much more detailed than the pictures captured, and a wooden face that he gifted to Jozsef and said that the face is one Jozsef makes when he's satisfied. :-)
Sonja took a photo of me and replicated it in colored pencil--she did a fantastic job! Her photo realistic art is on point!
Connor handcarved a trophy for John and I. His hat stack was super well done and impressively realistic. He told us that he gave us the Hat Award for successfully juggling many hats in our parenting roles. :-)
We all very much enjoyed spending the day opening and reviewing our gifts, taking a break for a light lunch, and ending just in time to create dinner. John had plenty of help (truly it takes a team) in crafting a delicious sushi dinner for the lot of us.
We introduced Bethany to poke bowls and thankfully, she liked it. We had a wonderful spread of rolls, bowls, and nigri topped off by sorbet. We contentedly spent the reaminder of the evening lounging together. Christmas had come and gone in a blink! How thankful we are that we get to celebrate Jesus' birth!
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