I blinked and they were gone......

The holidays that is. After t2 straight days of Christmas excitement too much food, many gifts and lots of family it is now time to put the tree away for another year. Christmas.. which in our crazy family actually started about 3 weeks ago with one weekend party after another has come and gone again. I love Christmas eve and Christmas day but it leaves me behind a big mess and grumpy over tired over stimulated children that take about a week to get straightened out again.
This Christmas has proved to be no different the kids were spoiled by everyone once again and between the two days we had to make three trips home with presents just to have room to bring the kids home too. It did not make much sense for us to take the presents and leave the kids. Although with Mason whiney and Dylan going down the hill and falling into the snow minutes before church. I admit that idea was pondered. =-)

The kids were up and bouncing off the walls by 6am Christmas morning. All I could think of was WOW and we have three housed to tackle by 6pm... This is going to be a crazy 12 hours. Then it was READY SET GO... and off we were one house after the other enjoying, family , presents, and food. The kids had a blast but it is fair to say we were all ready to collapse by the time we made it to our last stop of the day.
Once we were back home and had fought our overtired children to bed. Josh and I just looked around at the heaping amount of presents and I remember asking him. GOsh where to me start. He just smiled that "I have no idea" smile he gives me and we just dove it. By the time I had untied and twisted more little plastic pieces then once person should have to see in a year. I gave up and went to bed. IT was a wonderful Christmas but it was gone before I blinked........

So I did it again...

Yep. I did it again. I swore I would update this weekly if not monthly nope. I have no updated since Halloween . WOW so much has happened since then. Thanksgiving came and went in a blink of an eye. WILLIAM TURNED 2.. I am having a hard time with that one. I asked Josh if we could have another baby. He told me it would have to be a Christmas Miracle" haha I guess he was referring to my tubal.

Christmas is this weekend and I feel so unprepared for it. All our holiday parties have came and gone... I always use those to practice for the real thing. I remind the boys to say their thank yous and threaten them to never EVER let on if they already have gotten a gift. Mason I guess did not catch on this year to the always be polite. He opened up some socks...... and I saw what was going to happen. YUP. the lip came up the eyes welled up with tears . I thought to myself " GOSH NO DO NOT DO IT" too late. The flood gates opened and my unappreciative child sat there and cried over that gift. ahhhhhh 4 year olds. He had gotten many other gifts from that same person, but that did not seem to matter, getting those socks still made him cry.

So we are again going to spend the week practicing our present etiquette.