OK, so no sleigh bells were ringing at the Morse Residence yesterday, but the snow was definitely in attendance! For the first time in my life, I had a white Christmas at home...What a blessing! I spent a Christmas in Connecticut when I was about 8 and it snowed, but never here at home. I felt just like a kid. We woke both of our children up with the news....even the unaffected college student was a little excited! Anna Lauren was on top of the world. I know for all my Northern friends who are reading this, y'all are thinking..."Big deal"...well, for a deep South gal it was!
For some reason, this Christmas was so calm...I was happy with all of my purchases! I was happy with the food! I was happy with the noise! I was just plain happy! I usually get all worked up over stuff, but for whatever reason, I didn't this year...and it was nice!
For many years our tradition has been to get together at our house Christmas Eve...eat finger foods...then the grandmothers spend the night and we wake up Christmas morning...open gifts...then Brent cooks breakfast for the whole family! This year we had several new guests including Brent's Aunt Ann and her husband, Carl...My Uncle Johnny...Brent's Aunt Carolyn from Dallas! All total we had 15 people!
We cooked 32 eggs...2 dozen biscuits...6lbs of bacon...24 sausage patties...5 pots of coffee...2 jugs of OJ...2 pitchers of sweet tea!!! Our little house on the hill was full of laughter, reminiscing, love and togetherness...we were bursting at the seams, and loving every minute of it!
Brent and I are so blessed to have our immediate families so close...we are also blessed that his divorced parents can be together on holidays with no injuries! lol We are small, but we definitely pack a punch!
I don't have any pictures of the festivities, but the images are burned in my mind and by far, Christmas 2010 was the best Christmas ever! I pray you and yours had the Merriest Christmas and will experience the best New Year!
All my love,
Monica
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