Kyle had to work the second job tonight, so this afternoon before he left we took treats to some of our friends, and when we got back the kids got to open their Christmas eve presents. They always get pjs to open on Christmas eve. We didn’t always do it this way. When Kyle and I first got married and were starting our own traditions, Kyle didn’t have any input for what traditions he would like to make, so we ended up just doing what I had done with my family all my life (since that’s what I always looked forward to). And as the years went on that’s just what we did, until a few years ago when Kyle said that we should let the kids each open a present Christmas eve. However at that time we just let them pick one, which ended up making it difficult to put kids to bed right after they opened a new toy…..SO last year or the year before I got the brilliant idea that they should get jammies to open on Christmas eve, and that’s what we did this year too.
When Ethan got his open he suddenly wasn’t very excited any more:
After presents Daddy left to go to work, I fed the kids some dinner and they put their new pjs on so we could pick and lay out stockings:
Then the kids were off to bed and when they were asleep I got to spend some time to myself in a mostly clean living room to wait for Kyle to get off work. 🙂
Between 9:30 and 10 I sent Kyle a text to see how it was going at work and really to find out when he was going to be home. He was trying to finish up at work so he could come home, but he told me not to wait for him. So I just went to bed without him.