Christmas Recap

Two weeks later I am finally getting around to my Christmas post! Christmas is my all time favorite time of year. And despite several things that attempted to squash my Christmas cheer, it was a great holiday!
Coy and I had both sides of the family over to our house on Christmas Eve. My family came for lunch and Coy's later that evening for dinner. My family has a tradition of having something call "Christmas Eve chicken" on this day (we only call it this because it is always on the menu). In addition to that we have an assortment of appetizer things - this year mozzerella sticks, loaded potato skins, cheese and crackers, and water chesnut bacon rolls were a few to make an appearance. After that we get our new Christmas pajamas! This is one of my favorite things about Christmas as well...I look forward to these new pajamas almost as much as my gifts the next morning!
After cleaning up and shuffling my family out the door Coy's family came over a little while later. I made potato soup and cornbread and spent the evening playing a game.
Something Coy and I made it a priority to do this season was put more focus on the birth of Christ and less on the gifts. We still got gifts, don't get ahead of yourself, but we tried to make a conscious effort of remembering to true reason behind Christmas. In an attempt to do this we read the Christmas Story before opening our gifts Christmas morning. (We actually heard the story twice that day because it was read at my parents house as well before gifts). We opened our gifts at home with the two of us before spending the rest of the day was bouncing to/from our families houses.

It's always a little sad when Christmas is over. We wait so long for it come and spend a great deal of time in anticipation of the day. Now it is gone and I have to say it's a little sad.

I guess I can always look forward to next year!