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Who's Home for the Holidays?

by on ‎12-13-2013 12:38 PM

Pre-Isabella, plans for the holidays were a no-brainer.  We either spent Christmas with my family in Indiana or my husbands in Rhode Island.  Easy breezy!  I love the hustle and bustle of family tradition:  church on Christmas Eve (my favorite service of the year), opening presents with all the kiddos, eating the yummy dinners, and playing games on Christmas Day.  Enter Izzy.


I honestly thought we would continue doing things as we always had.  But after Isabella’s second Christmas, I realized I wanted to us to have Christmas at home.  I wanted her to put out food for the reindeer and cookies for Santa.  I wanted her to wake up in her own bed Christmas morning and run down the stairs to see if Santa had filled her stocking and left a present under the tree.  I know, a purely “romantic” thought, especially when you’re close to your extended family.  When my husband and I began discussing the possibility of building our own Christmas, we thought: “We’ll disappoint our families”;  “It’s just the three of us”; “ She won’t be with her cousins”; “Christmas won’t be the same”, “We’re being selfish.”…on and on.  It took us about 6 months to decide that we were going to stay home for the holiday.  Yikes!


So, on Christmas Eve Isabella put food out for the reindeer and left cookies, milk and a note for Santa.  Oh my, she was so excited she could hardly sleep. 



Reindeer food!



Getting Santa's cookies ready!


Christmas morning she awoke and went right to the window to see if the reindeer had eaten their snack…and they had.  She ran down the stairs and saw the stockings full, the cookies and milk gobbled up and a note from Santa thanking her for the goodies.



Big smile when Iz discovered Santa ate his cookies & brought her Pooh Bear! 


What joy it brought to our hearts to see her surprise and delight!  It was everything I had dreamed and more!  Can’t wait to see what this Christmas brings!


Wishing you a happy, healthy, blessed and joyful Holiday Season!


-Nancy