**cousins**
**my gift from A**
**A and her stocking stuff**
This year unlike last year, we went back to our family traditions. Last year it was too hard... but this year, I wanted to go back to what P, A and I did together. So here are some things we did...
1. P and I enjoyed watching the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy throughout the month of December. So I did that. I have to say, I learned so much this time around that I feel that I really didn't think about before.
2. Christmas Eve we did stockings. Usually P would wake me up at midnight to do the stockings, but I was not going to do that with A. So after we got home from our Candlelight service Christmas Eve Night, A and I sat down to open our stockings. I was a little sad since my stocking had only one thing in it... unlike those past years with tons of all the goodies I like that P would fill it with... Diet Coke being one of them.
3. Christmas morning we woke up and after washing up, we sang "Silent Night" and "Joy to the World". P would like to sing "Silent Night" in all the languages we knew how to sing between the two of us... So we would sing in English, Korean, German, and Indonesian. ha ha... This is year we just sang it in English. Then we read from Luke 2, the adult bible and the children's bible. After we prayed, we opened presents.
4. Our family tradition was for me to make breakfast burritos on special days. I haven't done it this whole time since P died... Christmas morning, I made breakfast burritos. A said that it was so good. it was funny...
One tradition I want to add, but didn't get to because it rained on Christmas is to do fireworks. I bought sparkles for us. Maybe we could do it tonight or something.
Christmas was a little sad in the morning, some tears were shed, both by A saying she missed her daddy and me.
Later in the day, we had a fabulous time with our family here. Had a great lunch and wonderful desserts. Watched some pre-recorded football, from last year, but who cares right. We did presents and throughout the time, tried to digest the over consumed food in our bellies.
I guess Christmas is what you make it huh? What family traditions are and how our individual hearts are during this season... I want to instill in A's heart our desire to remember Christ and the awesome thing he has done for us.
