Lyons Family Christmas 2013

Flashback to our family Christmas 2013: This year we had to celebrate the Sunday night before Christmas as we had to get ready to go to PA on Christmas Eve. We spent some time acting out the Christmas story and read in our Jesus Storybook Bible about the Christmas Story- He is Here! We sang "Happy Birthday to Jesus" which Jeremiah really liked this year and Jeremiah and Lydia opened his presents and we began the beginning stages of teaching Jeremiah how to say "Thank You" for a gift that is received instead of treasuring the gift above the giver. It is always hard to know what to get our own kids- I tried to keep things simple and just get them a book or practical items. I did get Lydia a few pacifiers- her favorite for soothing at naps and nighttime and friends of ours got Lydia her first doll- which was super cute! I think she loves it! Michael and I tried to focus our gifts for one another this year on something sweet, something fun, and something practical. It helped us think through categories of what to get each other which is fun to do. I have a tradition which I almost ran out of time for this year- of always putting rhyming clues on gifts- I may do this for Jeremiah when he gets older. Michael is always usually way too good at guessing what is in each gift based on the clues- he is too smart but it is fun.