No, I have not dropped off the face of the earth. We have been crazy busy...but in a good way. The Man went into a "Christmas Schedule" which means he had 6 days off over Christmas...but the trade off is that he will work 6 days over New Years. His first day off happened to be his birthday as well as the day my mom came up from San Diego. What every man wants for his birthday...a Mother-in-Law =:O
We had a lovely visit. The girls were thrilled over having Grandma here for Christmas. Being in the military makes it very hard on the girls. They have never been around family much, so they crave the few visits we do have with family members. My mom spent Christmas here last year as well, but David had just left for Iraq, and we were up to our ears (literally) with the fun we like to call "Lice Fest 2005/06" So it just was not the same. Oh, Internet, if only I had been blogging last year, you could have lived the fun and irony with me *snort*
So, this year Christmas was immeasurably better, for the obvious reasons...The Man: present, The L.I.C.E: NOT!
This year Santa brought the girls a Wii. They had been talking about it since Nintendo first started talking about the new system over a year ago. When it became apparent that the Wii's would be in short supply, we told the girls there would be no way to buy one without sitting in line for hours (true)...and that we were not willing to do that (not really true) for a game system. What they did not know however, was that Mrs. Clause had already sat in line for 6 hours outside Gamestop in November. Where, I might add, she was voted the coolest mother ever, by a bunch of very nice, self described geeks and slackers! Of course I was the *only mother there...in fact for the first 4 hours, I was the only woman there :/
Anyway, Chaney and Kennedy were pretty resigned to not getting one. The Wii was the only thing Riley had asked for from Santa though, so she was pretty confident that the Big Guy would come through...providing we were telling her the truth when we assured her she was NOT on the naughty list. She did not quite believe us though, when we tried to explain that as her parents we would be the first to know if she were put on the bad list. She was so cute this year, it breaks my heart that we only have a few short years to do Santa. Chaney found out this year...and I pray that when the other two find out we can leave out the drama that we had this year. I won't go into the long details, but to summarize: lots of Mom guilt, and much moola put into the therapy jar :/
After the girls went to bed, we set the Wii up in the game room. We were trying to think of ways for the girls to find it. Mrs. Clause wanted to hang the controllers from the Christmas tree...however Santa wanted to put them in their stockings. Mrs Clause relented, because she is submissive like that.
Since I was a little girl, our tradition has been that Santa has put the stockings at the foot of the kids beds so that they find it when they wake up. Santa does this before we go to bed at 1am...
At 1:07 we hear the girls awake! We later learned that Chaney woke up and knew it was the middle of the nights, so she decided to go back to sleep, however, when she stretched out she felt the stocking and wanted to take a quick peek. Once she saw the Wii remote, all bets were off. Way. To. Go. Santa.
We all got up and opened presents...the highlights: pink (3 different pinks) converse hightops for Chaney, Black and Pink Heelys for Riley, and a Posty the Pig Snuggler for Kennedy. My Dad and Step-Mom bought them a laptop to do school work on. Chaney is over the moon about that...although I dont think it has sunk in that it is for school. They also got new DS lites. Chaney and Riley had the old kind, and Kennedy wanted one. When the big girls realized that the baby sister was going to get the new and improved DS, they chose to trade in their old one toward the purchase of the DS Lites. They have been mocking them from the top of my closet for a couple of months now :)
After we opened presents, we all played some Wii...VERY FUN! Even Grandma got into the action! She beat us all in Wii Bowling. She even played Tennis. It was like a Visa commercial...
Brand new Wii Game System: $249,
Wireless Wii Controller: $60,
Watching a 50 year old grandmother play Wii Tennis...PRICELESS!
About 4:30am we all were starting to loose our Christmas cheer, so the adults went to bed and slept, while the girls went to bed and taught Kennedy how to go on bark mode with Nintendogs and the new DS Lites.
Here are some pictures of Christmas "Middle of the Night"...I could kick myself for not getting pictures of Wii playing!
Chaney and her new converse shoes
Riley opening her Heelys. I think these might be a bigger hit than even the Wii!
Kennedy was very happy with Chaney's gift to her...Nintendogs
They seem to think they can keep Mom away from the laptop...I don't think so
This should have gone at the top
Grandma got to buy them their Christmas Pjs this year
I hope you all are having a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Me :)
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