Christmas Day!

This has got to be one of the strangest Christmas days I have ever had.

We were informed back in November that my Mom was going out of town to spend Christmas with my brother and his kids.  Then not even a week later, my Dad tells me he is going out of town to spend Christmas with his fiancee's daughters.  At first I was sad that I would not see either of my parents on Christmas day, but then it would make it a more relaxed day to just spend with the in-laws and not have to fit in three Christmas celebrations in one day.  But that's wasn't going to work out either...

Go figure, all month I was so worried about us getting sick and having to miss out on Christmas Day with the in-laws.  We stayed healthy, but...they got sick!  That's right, came down with the flu four days before Christmas.  It stuck around for a while, so our Christmas day plans were cancelled (or re-scheduled for later in the week).  But now...what were we to do on Christmas day?

Our church does a Christmas morning service geared to kids, (we don't usually attend - maybe because we haven't had kids til now).  But since we had no other plans we decided to go.  It was very nice to see friends and focus on the real reason for Christmas, the birth of Jesus Christ.  They had entertaining little video clips and cupcakes for the kids after they sang Happy Birthday to Jesus.  It was really cute.  After some hellos and well wishes to friends, we headed home for lunch and a nap.  In the afternoon we opened gifts from Grandma and our gifts to Benjamin.  Then we went to visit my hubby's Uncle Vic and Aunt Faith who haven't seen Benjamin since he was only about 4 or 5 months old.  It was a very nice visit and we headed home for a quiet supper of leftover turkey.

It was an odd Christmas day, but a good one.