Christmas at Home

Background story: My sister Angela passed away

on 12/17/2006. It was a very difficult Christmas

that year so we all spent the night at my house so

we could all wake up together Christmas morning.

We have continued this tradition every year since

2006.

We leave Josh's grandmother's house around 9

and my family is already at my house waiting for

us. We usually sit around and talk or watch the

previous year's Christmas on DVD. We get all the

blankets out and both air mattresses. People sleep

in almost every room of the house. We get an early

morning visit from Santa. My nephew Cole, 3, gets

so excited to see Santa and has to tell him why the

other kids do not deserve presents. After Santa leaves,

we start cooking breakfast. After breakfast, we open

presents and take family pictures. Of course, since no

one took a bath or put on makeup, we all look horrible

in the pictures. Again, Mason got so many presents

including a vacuum cleaner, wagon of blocks, set of tools,

clothes...etc. After everyone leaves in the morning, we let

Mason open his presents from us.