Merry Christmas!

Well 2014 is drawing to a close and we're mostly recovered from Christmas. This year the kids got an entire two weeks off from school so it feels like we've been on "vacation" forever. Amy in particular I think had a great Christmas – she got the crossbow she wanted (and in the process, let me know that she doesn't believe in Santa any more) and I think her favorite gift was some scrap fabric that her Grandma Lois gave her. She took a short sewing class a few days before Christmas and is very interested in sewing. This past Sunday she and Lois put together a little quilt pillow which we were to close up and finish...but then the dog then partially pulled the stuffing out of it. It may need more repair than I'm capable of! She got a million pads of drawing paper and lots of new pens and pencils. I know the kids get way too much stuff for holidays, it's hard to tone it down. Today we're six days past Christmas and some of their gifts are completely untouched still.

Reed really didn't ask for much for Christmas – he got everything he asked for for his birthday, and couldn't come up with more ideas of things he wanted for Christmas. Tough situation. He asked for this ANKI race track thing where you control the car with your iTouch...and he played with it that day and maybe one other time and I won't be surprised if it doesn't come out of the box again. The really big gift of the year for him came from a big group of family (Sharps/Borcherdings, Poppy, Conners, Kippers and Stevie/Nikki) since it was so expensive...the Simpsons Lego house. It's so cool! He's been working on it for a few days and still isn't finished. Unfortunately he hit a roadblock not being able to find a certain piece (one we have tons of if he'd search the gigantic box of random Legos that we have) and gave up for now. Stick-to-it-iveness is something our boy perhaps needs to work on.

All in all a great holiday. Lots of family time, we stayed too busy probably but it's hard not to. Hopefully lots of great memories made.