Oh what a day! I could not sleep a wink past 6:30 and after unsuccessfully attempting to fall back to sleep, I decided that Conor and I should just get up because I knew he wasn’t quite sleeping either. So at 7 am we arose and made a beeline for our stockings. We must have been good this year, because Santa was quite good to us! To be honest, we had quite a leisurely morning opening up gifts. We did our stockings and then worked our way around to the gifts we gave each other. I was so impressed that Conor didn’t guess what I was giving him especially since I pretty much told him. And he could not guess the Dominoes for the life of him. Oh, I gave him some Bose headphones. I’m not sure they are the best thing to give from my side because they block all sound, but Conor is enjoying them… Conor gave me some great gifts this year, including an incredible stocking! He also gave me 8 bowls, all different colours from Anthro. We have some dishes we’d like to start phasing out. And Conor gave me a great coat that I really wanted but never talked about. How did he know?? Plus, I had already said to myself that I don’t need another wool coat, I already have one. But I do need this coat and am so glad I have it! I have to exchange it for one size smaller, but that’s no big deal. And we did end up exchanging Christmas Eve gifts, which were slippers!!

We ate a hearty breakfast of waffles, cool whip and strawberries with yummy OJ. Christmas is no time for a grocery budget in my opinion. We opened up gifts from Conor’s parents, using ichat as a Christmas portal. Get this, one of the gifts addressed to Conor was actually for me! Conor opened it up only to discover another box wrapped and addressed to me! Very tricky! Conor really took it like a man and I took it like a giddy little girl because hey, who doesn’t like one more surprise gift? Score! Within were pasta-making attachments for my kitchenaid mixer! So excited. And it truly is a gift for Conor too. We had quite the morning!

In the afternoon, we went over to the Jensen’s and enjoyed a low-key, quiet Christmas. Conor enjoyed being a little boy again with Owen and I especially enjoyed cooking with Lisa. We love the Jensens and are so grateful to have them as our home away from home!

We had such a wonderful Christmas and feel so blessed with abundance! I have to admit that I’m already thinking of things for next Christmas; gifts, traditions and what fun it’s going to be!

Oh, we ichatted with the Muirheads and Cora says to us, “When are you coming for dinner, how ‘bout 5?” So cute! We had to explain to Freyja and Cora that we won’t be there for Christmas, but that we’ll be there next year and gave then a timeline as to when we’d see them next. We’ll be there next Christmas. I promise!

My new bowls. There is also a darker blue one and a red one!