Christmas 2014

Merry Christmas!

Christmas morning is magical, especially when you have young children. All month long, I was looking forward to see their happy faces and bright shiny eyes on Christmas morning. True that Elliot is still a bit young to really get Christmas but Amelia is just the right age this year and so it felt very magical.

Usually my kids wake up around 5:30am every day, but on Christmas morning they slept till past 6am. Then we hung out in bed till 7:30am before they even showed any interest in opening their stockings.

They were excited about their little stocking stuffers and didn't even notice that Santa has left more gifts under the Christmas tree. Thanks to family, neighbors and friends, we had plenty of gifts to open. (From us, the kids only got 3 or 4 gifts each. Just enough to not overload them - just as Jesus received 3 gifts from the Wise Men.)

Amelia had the most fun unwrapping gifts and was assisting everyone. Elliot was happy about his new cars and started playing with them right away.

But after the first two gifts, she disappeared in her room: she had received more Little Pony's and needed to line her entire collection up and count them.

Of course there were kisses and cuddles and thank you's. This is what Christmas is all about: Celebrating Jesus' birth and love!



Then we had breakfast and unwrapped some more gifts. It took us all morning till the last gift was unwrapped as we took it slow and enjoyed this special time.

Amelia loves her new princess dress. She looks so cute and happy here.

While Elliot took his morning nap, Amelia, Daddy and I played a game of Surprise (and many more since then). Oh what fun it was!



We had our Christmas dinner at lunch time so that we all can eat together as a family. We made it a tradition to have a traditional German Christmas meal: duck, roasted Brussels sprouts, red cabbage, potato dumplings and potatoes. It was delicious!

The afternoon we spent playing with the new toys and running around in the backyard.

We had a relaxing Christmas Day and I was able to spent all day in my pajamas - indeed a magical Christmas and just right for our family of 4. We hope your holiday was as merry as ours!