Christmas Eve

As a kid, my family had the tradition of going out to breakfast for Christmas Eve. As we all got older we would go somewhere that had an all you can eat buffet due to the fact that I had 4 younger brothers who could eat. Well that is one tradition we have not continued but we have started going to a movie on Christmas Eve. This year we saw the Tale of Despereaux. We read the book this past year and everyone was looking forward to the show.

We had friends over for Christmas Eve "dinner." It wasn't really dinner because everybody brought a couple of their favorite finger foods but it was sure yummy. The kids acted out the nativity and we all played the chimes in lieu of the caroling activity my children were dying to do. We are so grateful for awesome friends who make holidays away from family so much fun and less lonely. The kids opened up jammies and excitedly got ready for bed all the while telling me how hard it was going to be to go to sleep tonight.