December 15, 2012
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Christmas in Delaware
We celebrated Christmas as a family the weekend before we left for our Christmas traveling, since I wanted to have a whole day to savor the Christmas goodness with.
Somehow, I ended up with aaaaaalllll the presents to wrap Friday night. Layla “helped”, and so did Tim. 
We opened presents when we woke up.
Here are the kiddos with their stockings. I like this picture just because it is the way it is.
Exploring the contents of their stockings…
I was actually lucky enough to find a lot of their presents (especially for the younger two) at Goodwill this year – wahoo for my wallet!! One of the things that Gabe really wanted that was not at Goodwill was a Wolverine costume. I loved seeing the expression on his face when he opened it – he was genuinely surprised and delighted.
Just what you like to see on their faces on Christmas morning.
All of the Christmas mayhem goodness.
There’s a Wolverine in my living room!!
Yummy Christmas breakfast.
There were all kinds of transformed creatures running around outside that afternoon. Scary and ferocious, indeed. Super Mario man, I mean…
Also this cute little critter…
We got Layla a little kitchen for Christmas, and all of the kids thought it was great. She actually got rather frustrated because her brothers were so busy “cooking” and opening cupboards that she could hardly get in to play with it herself.
After a full day of playing with toys and having a greatly relaxing afternoon, we had a yummy snack supper.
A lot of fun. Also a very full day for a mother.
Such a busy day if you want to have yummy food. Phew. I didn’t even get around to everything I had planned on making, which was fine. The soft pretzels happily waited for another day, as patient as could be. Merry Christmas, us. 
