Christmas Eve is such a long day when you are a kid! My boys were SO BORED all day and dying to open a gift. In Neal's family, the tradition was that after dinner, everyone opened ALL of their gifts and then Santa brought all the gifts for Christmas morning. We have modified that craziness and the kids get to choose one gift (approved by Mom) to open in the evening.
Of course, evening never comes fast enough!
Around dinner time, Daddy Jeff, Gail, Jeff, Patience and Nelson all showed up for the festivities. We had cranberry juice with sugar in fancy glasses, clam chowder and yummy warm ham sandwiches, as is the custom in the Horn family. Yummy stuff!
Jeff snapped this photo and the one of Daddy Jeff and Nelson above. Thanks, Jeff!
After dinner, we chatted and laughed at Nelson and Miles showed us some karate moves. Soon it was almost bedtime, so everyone went home, and the kiddos were off to dreamland. Except that Miles took about two and a half hours to fall asleep. And I laid there with him the whole time.
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Poor Miles. And poor you! :-) Christmas Eve is so hard! We put our kids to bed at 9pm, and I think the three oldest were still awake at midnight.
So glad you guys are carrying out the Horn traditions! Love you!
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