Christmas and the Aftermath

Christmas was a lovely day at our house.  Sophia woke up at 7:15a, but Amelia didn't get up until 7:45a.  We were just getting ready to wake her up when she got up on her own.

The girls loved Christmas.  Amelia was so excited playing with her new stuff, that she didn't want to eat anything, and didn't end up eating until lunch time.

• Santa doesn't bring much to our house, except for small toys and treats in our stockings.  But Sophia didn't even get to her stocking until almost 5pm.
• One of my sisters and a cousin posted a birthday wish to my Mom on Facebook.  When I saw it, I cried, and then Amelia saw me crying and wanted to know why.  I told her Christmas was also Grandma Joy's birthday.  So Amelia asked how we could get presents to her since she is in Heaven.  I told her maybe we could just be nice to each other; she didn't seem to think that was a fun idea.
• Amelia woke up crying early this morning because she had a "bad" dream that we had already taken down the Christmas tree.  I'm not ready for it to come down either
• And speaking of things I'm not ready for, I'm not ready to stop listening to Christmas music. Thank goodness for Pandora.
• Every year I think about going to get Christmas items on clearance at stores, but today while I was in a store, it was so congested and chaotic in that section of the store, I just had to walk away without buying anything.  The frenzy makes you feel like you need everything, but in reality, I probably need very little of what was there.