Our Great Adventure....: Happy Birthday Jesus!

Merry Christmas! I hope each of you have been as blessed as we have been these past few days. Celebrating the birth of Christ is always such a special time for my family. My parents (aka YiaYia and Popo) drove up the afternoon of Christmas Eve so we could go to an early service which was simple, a few song and a short serman, but very tender as I watched my baby girl raise her little hand to praise Jesus (she saw a gentleman in front of her doing this; heads up to us adults...children really do watch how we do, or do not, praise God). After service we went out to dinner and then for a drive around the neighborhood looking at lights (one house you actually got out and walked around they had so many...Bailey loved it, she didn't want to leave!). Once back home we started what can only be described as a nauseating over-indulgence of Christmas "cheer" (no, we don't drink but man, can we put away the sweets!).

Christmas morning was exciting at our home! This was Bailey's second Christmas, but the first one where she really "got it". It only took her walking into our family room to realize that Santa had been there :) She got a kick out of the gifts and the wrapping. It took only one or two presents before she realized that if she tore off the paper, a gift would be inside however... being the neat little girl that she is, she had to hand each piece of paper (no matter how small) to Mommy and emphasize the word, "trash". YiaYia and Popo brought Bailey this really cute Disney tricycle. It's purple and pink and will grow with her (there's a handle for me to push her with now and later she can use the peddles to move it herself). Bailey absolutely loved it :)

Today, the day after Christmas, we stopped by the mall for a bit and Bailey was genuinely upset that Santa was not there (not that she would have sat on his lap, but she liked to smile and wave at him....she's very brave from a far :) We're planning to take down our Christmas decorations this weekend but, we'll see how that goes. Bailey has grown pretty accustom to the Christmas lights, so it may take some "weaning" to prevent a melt-down :)

Pray that each of you were blessed this Christmas season. May the love of Christ, be felt by you all...