We spent Christmas Eve with Brian’s family. His sister and her husband and two boys were in for the occasion. Brian’s mom had to work daylight yesterday, so the cooking duties fell to Jennifer. We had the traditional lasagna for supper and it was quite delicious.
Jake has been bouncing off the walls for a week now because of Christmas. And, I think this is his best Christmas yet. Brian’s parents bought him an air hockey table. They didn’t know he wanted one, but he’s been talking about getting one for months now. You should’ve seen the look on his face when he opened that gift–it was priceless.
Here’s a lesson I learned two years ago…no matter how much Jake says he wants something, don’t bother buying it until November because he will change his mind and want something else by then. This year, he didn’t really ask for anything so I finished my shopping. As soon as I was done, he started talking about how much he wanted a Snow Monster Mega Rig Adventure. He talked about it for weeks. Not wanting to disappoint, we decided to buy it for him as an extra gift. No sooner did that arrive and he changed his mind and wanted the Lego version of Captain Jack Sparrow’s Black Pearl. But, I couldn’t really justify buying another gift at this point, so we were just going to go with what we had.
Brian told his sister about it and she went and bought the Black Pearl for Jake even though she, too, was done with her shopping (he’ll be getting his original Christmas present for his birthday, instead). Wasn’t that nice?
I could go on, but I need to get ready for Christmas dinner, which we are having here.
Merry Christmas, everyone!