Christmas 2009

Once again, we had a wonderful Christmas Season this year as we celebrated Jesus’ birth. Jonathan and I decided to stay in Brantford for “our own” Christmas morning, which was new and wonderful. We attended the Christmas Eve service at BCC, bathed the boys after some hot chocolate, and put out the stockings with milk and cookies for Santa. After Jonathan flooded our backyard rink we worked as little elves and packed the vans before heading to bed ourselves.
Christmas morning, the boys enjoyed opening their stockings in Seth’s room, seeing the empty milk mug and cookie crumbs, and opening their own gifts. A breakfast of waffles (with my new waffle-maker, thanks Aimee), fruit, milk, and coffee was enjoyed before getting ready and heading out the door to Chatham. We drove separately so that Jonathan could return later to refinish our hardwood floor (looks great!). Once we got to Chatham, we had a good few hours together with the DuChene gang. Later in the week, we enjoyed some great skating together too. Colton and Micah were skating well on their own, freely giving their pushers to their Cayman Island cousins to use.
On the 26th, we had our traditional Boxing Day Christmas with the Perry gang (Krista’s mom’s side of the family), which is one of my favourite days of the year. A happy birthday cake to Jesus, wrestling, playing with lots of space, 2 meals, and visiting made for another great day.
Then, Seth, Micah and I headed to Aunt Joyce and Uncle Glen’s. We got to see the Cylka gang before they headed back to Toronto. A toboggan ride, country runs, delicious meals, quality time reading and playing games together, and more visiting was again, great.
What an amazing week. Thank you, everyone.