Hug Twice

We travel for the week of Christmas.  We spend the first half of the week with Matt’s family, and the second half with mine.  All of our extended family (both sides) lives very close together, and we are the only outliers.  So we travel.  It isn’t too big a deal for us to do so, and it is our only trip each year to see family.

This year, CJ is four, and taking an interest in all things Christmas.  In the past, he’s been relatively indifferent, so we basically saved all the celebrating for the family visits and not had one of our own.  So this year, we put a few lights up outside the house, hung small stockings on our hearth, took out the little “Charlie Brown” Christmas tree we’ve had from our first-married days, and we had our own Christmas celebration Sunday, where the kids got their presents form us.

There weren’t a lot of presents - just one toy gift to each of the kids (a ball popper for Alexa, a TAG pen for CJ), a few (needed) items of clothing, and a small matchbox car for each of them from each other, and to me it seemed like it was tiny and the kids would be disappointed.  But they loved it.  Christmas with the grandparents (both sides) is always crazy and over the top, and I was afraid comparisons would be made (and maybe in the future they will be) but this year, it was perfect.

And the kids have been fighting over the TAG pen ever since.  ;)  Cj informed me I need to go get Alexa her own so she will leave him alone. 

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