December 29, 2008

• Here's hoping you all had a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful upcoming New Year!! We had a good time. We had the kids from the 19th through the 25th and opened gifts on Christmas Eve. We figured it kinda sucked for the kids to open gifts on Christmas Day and go home an hour later! My oldest son was there with his girlfriend and it was just a really nice time. For Doug and I, it's all about the kids and watching them and for the kids its obviously the gifts but about being together too. We had an excellent, excellent ham dinner that everyone kinda pitched in and helped with and then I played Santa which is my favorite part! I wrap each and every gift, even those in the stockings and that way the kids feel like they've gotten more because they've opened more. I learned that trick years ago when the kids were small and it was a very lean year. This next year I'm going to put away $100 a month towards Christmas. Some say that's a lot and it shouldn't all go to commercialism but when you've got 6 kids, you've got to do something! Besides, Christmas is my favorite holiday even though I'm a Pagan and so I don't mind spending it on something I love!

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