My mom hosted the family to her house for brunch and to open the presents that were under my parents tree on Christmas Eve since we were headed to my sisters on Christmas Day to open the rest of the presents and its sort of a nightmare to tote presents back and forth from house to house. We were all a little concerned that bending the Christmas traditions would somehow ruin Christmas (and gave my mom a really hard time about it leading up to the day- hence the title of the post)... but it didnt and in fact I think it made Christmas seem like it was two days long instead of it all being over in just a few hours Christmas morning. Kinda nice. Here are some pics of Christmas Eve.
We had a really great day of yummy food, lots of gift opening and some "Clue" playing. Im not sure if this new way of doing Christmas will stick but I think it was fun. At night we did our traditional Chinese Buffet dinner with our cousins, over to Billie and Danny's for gift exchanging, driving around town to check out the light displays (we saw some doozies!) and then home to get into our Christmas PJs and get ready for Santa.
Maddie had her very first ever reading of the Night Before Christmas and the Christmas Story from her Daddy. This is a Herndon Family tradition that we are happy to pass down to Maddie. My mom bought Maddie the prettiest Night Before Christmas book illustrated by Mary Englebreit . Maddie was so interested in the book - moreso then we've ever seen her interested in a book or even a toy before. She touched each page and looked all the bright colors while Jim read. It was so cute.
After reading that and then the Christmas Story (you know... the Baby Jesus one) it was time to put our baby to bed!!!
To be continued...
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