Drapers' Diary

I hope everyone enjoyed the Christmas time! My family certainly did! We started out the week by waiting for Clint to get home. He worked an overtime shift on Monday before he started his week off. Because of the way his company schedules things, everyone gets a week off every three weeks. Of course it rotates between groups. So he was one of the lucky one that were able to take the entire Christmas week off! It was fun! On Tuesday we went to his parents' house to do pre-Christmas celebrating. We really just opened some presents and ended up watching movies. Although Haden did have a lot of fun playing in the snow with his cousin, Jess. We got home late that night and started to clean the house for Christmas Eve.

On Wednesday we went to my parents' house for constant fun! We started out by making a gingerbread house and a train. Now don't go thinking we were that creative! Mom is really good at finding kits for these kind of things. The kits this year even had a little tray for the walls to stand up in. No falling walls at our house! Afterward, Mom had a great book called "Snowmen at Night". She got white hats and gloves for the kids and Clint to wear and to pretend to be snowmen. They then acted out the book while Mom read to all of us. The best part was definitely the snowball fight! We had socks that were balled up and we all threw them at each other. Haden is really good at dying when he gets hit! Of course we had to do the nativity. Where I was the only one able to come (Kim is on her mission in Ohio and Phil and his family opted to make this their first Christmas at home in Boston), my kids got the role of Mary and Joseph. I tell you, Shay loved holding the little doll we had for Baby Jesus! Enough so that she would leave that night without it!

We had a great dinner and a fun treasure hunt to find the stockings and wound down for the night. After leaving the Santa key on the door (we don't have a chimney, so we have a magic key that only works for Santa), the kids were finally willing to go to bed. It really didn't take them long to fall asleep, making it better for "Santa" to get the presents out and get to bed early. The kids woke up at about seven and immediately woke us up. It was so much fun to watch them open up their presents and see how excited they were for everything! I later make my first turkey and Christmas dinner for my parents, Clint's parents, and my little family.

Friday got to be the "put all the toys together at Nana's house" day. Clint and I spend the day putting together a Bowflex for my dad, a doll house for my mom, and cleaning out one of the bedrooms to make it an exercise room. So again, nothing was done at my house. Today is our sixth anniversary, and Clint had a typical high school marathon date planned. Thank you, Clint! Now everything is over, and that kind of makes me sad! I guess all of the 'go go go' can make me crash when it is all done.

It was a lot of fun, but no laundry got done. So that is what I am doing today: 15 loads of laundry! I hope everyone else's' weeks have been great and fun, and thank you for listening to me ramble about my week. Love to all!