Christmas

our christmas this year was lovely. this was the first year that we hosted, my family came from austin to our charming house, i cooked an entire christmas meal all by myself, and we even had a real charlie brown christmas tree! but, this was also the first year that christopher did not spend with his family - and his mom and little sister paige called a little teary-eyed to wish us a merry christmas. we are trying to figure out our holidays and traditions and balancing all of our families - and what we want to cultivate in our own family once littles come. this year both me and christopher had to work on christmas eve, but not too late, my family came early that morning and we all went thrifting and had lunch with christopher before i had to be at work. and i was off work and home by evening, to enjoy some quality time with my loved ones. my family always gets excited about presents and like usual we ended up opening all of our presents on christmas eve! it was so crazy! christopher had never done that growing up and i think it made him a little sad. so christmas morning we all slept in, had waffles and eggs for breakfast, and then i got to work cooking christmas dinner. i made a baked herb chicken with all the yummy spices, i also made a ham with brown sugar glaze, homemade mash potatoes, broccoli casserole, and black berry cobbler for dessert! there was so much laughter and silly tickle fights, cuddles while watching movies, a thankful dinner, and then we all played soccer at our local park! it was such a beautiful day!

love,
meg