It's all over now but the eating. Our living room looks like every preschool child's fantasy. There are four new babies for Kaylen. She previously had no babies and since I mistakenly made that comment to family she now has a multicultural sampling of infants. There's a Mickey Mouse music set, complete with enough noise makers to create instant insanity for any parent. We have a full dozen miniature action figures for Joel, all of which complete my husband's fantasy of playing with his childhood toys again. There's Star Wars, Transformers, and Marvel comic book characters...all boy, all the time. We also have a junkyard of Matchbox cars and enough play groceries to stock a pretend Publix. Santa come. He saw. He conquered.
We also took a minute to thank Jesus for all of our many blessings. It completely warmed my soul to see my children stop playing when we said we were going to pray and thank the Lord for our gifts. The kids came over, folded their hands, and waited to hear our prayer. We have so much to be thankful for and it was important for us to show our children that all of our gifts truly come from God's provision. Lord knows that we aren't making it paycheck to paycheck without any help.
This Christmas has been especially emotional for our family as we deal with the medical crises on each side of the family. God has been so good to us by allowing our special relatives to be home after brief hospitalizations due to their serious illnesses. Granddad was home in time to watch the kiddos destroy the gift wrap via Kinect. A real scare had us circling the prayer wagons for my sweet Grandma; prayers were answered positively and she is home with a treatment plan in place. So, so grateful to God for letting us borrow her for just a little bit longer!
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