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All I want for Christmas

Dear Readers,

Have you any great Christmas Eve traditions? Our house is full of them. Every year Bryce gets on the computer to start tracking Santa where ever he is while the girls usually work in the kitchen on either goodies or dinner. As usually, Mom has been using each kid to wrap other kids' presents but not there own. They might wrap a couple of their own, but they'll be blank boxes that show no sign of having anything interesting. The boys usually talk about sports or music, whatever we're feeling that particular day. Maddie has added a couple of traditions unintentionally, such as unwrapping gifts early or stealing cookies earlier than necessary. Following all these activities we act out the Nativity Scene from Luke 2 of the King James Bible. We then open one gift, which always turns out to be new pajamas...go figure. Tradition. After that it's really whatever we feel like: watching a movie til all hours of the night, having a slumber party in the family room downstairs or talking the night away and arguing what time we should get up the next morning. I always get up first...no matter what my siblings say. :)

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  1. Sparrow1/8/10, 10:23 AM

    No way. Maddie and I totally woke you up this year.

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