The Three Days of Christmas

Holy cow have we been busy! Sick, busy, traveling, busy, sick and busier!  And I wouldn't change a thing!

Abby recovered in the nick of time for the holidays and passed on her germs to Tim and I.  I'm still battling plugged and echoing ears and tiredness.  Tim is Tim.  :-) 

Day 1:
We celebrated our immediate family Christmas on Christmas Eve.  Meeting at my parents house and patiently waiting for Abby to wake up from her nap, we finally opened our presents!

After our Christmas we headed over to the Legere family Christmas where we enjoyed scrumptious food including seafood casserole, ham, Italian chicken, jello casserole and oh so much more....We switched up gift giving by having a very successful Yankee Swap. 

Day 2:
Christmas was fantastic!  Abby was totally awesome.  She walked timidly into into the living room and then ran to the tree.  She climbed on top of all the presents to check out her new kitchen.  She finally moved on to her new piano from Santa and all of her other presents to open.  Our Santa doesn't wrap presents (call it lazy or thrifty - whatever) but he does have cool "to: Abby, Love: Santa" labels. 

After we opened all of our presents, we headed to worship to celebrate Baby Jesus' birthday, and then drove down to Woburn to share the holiday with the Proctors.  A yummy dinner of lobster casserole, ham, crock pot potatoes, sweetened carrots and more!  I need to get some of these recipes!  After presents and a Yankee Swap we got on the rode around 8pm. 

Day 3:
Tim and I committed to serving breakfast at Preble Street Soup Kitchen and I'm so glad we did.  Not only did we volunteering our time for the hungry and sometimes homeless, we had the opportunity to put our life into perspective.  We left feeling very fortunate for our abundance of food, family, gifts, and love. 

We had dropped Abby off to MiMi's and met everyone up to the Lee's for the Dee Family Christmas.  Again, more food of steak, eggs, toast, bacon.....oh how I'm full.  The Christmas Auction is always one of my favorite traditions of the holiday.  Where we each have 40-50 pennies and we bid on items pulled from Santa's sacks.  Several of my family members purchases items (beef jerkey, beer, wine, candy, gadgets, household items, toiletries, and just plain stuff) to auction off to the family.  There's always something for everyone! 

So there was our three days of Christmas...are you tired?  I'm still trying to catch up!  Even after hitting the sack before 9pm each night this week, I'm still exhausted!