Christmas

"There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner. "G.K. Chesterton

Airport calls

"It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself."  Charles Dickens 

This Christmas Nana, Uncle Ryan, and Grandma came to visit.  We hit up some D.C. sites (Botanical Garden train exhibit, Zoolights, Presidents park:  Santa's workshop) and enjoyed family time at home for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.  We baked cookies for Santa, sprinkled reindeer food, went to worship on Christmas Eve, had a family feast and opened family presents, sang "Away in a Manger" to candlelight, and woke up early to Nana's bacon cooking, a fire in the fireplace, and Santa's stockings on Christmas morning.  Christmas Day was spent relaxing with new presents and plays, gingerbread pancakes and bacon, naptime, a grand feast, playtime and sadly goodbyes.  Nana left crying.  No one let me cook or clean a thing, so I played pregnant princess and frazzled out everyone else.  Family time is always the best gift to open.