Last night Ryan, Libby, and I went to Ryan's parent's house for Christmas. We had dinner together and then opened presents! :-) It was a fun night and we headed home a little after 9:15pm. We got home and Libby and I baked some cookies for Santa and then Libby took her shower. After her shower we each were each able to open one present. :-) Libby wanted us to open the gifts that were from her. Ryan went first and she had decided that he needed a new pair of batting gloves so he opened that and was pleased with what she picked out for him. Libby is always very thoughtful when it comes to picking out gifts! Next it was my turn and I opened my gift from Libby and it was a stuffed snowman. She had Ryan take her shopping and she was very insistent that she use her own money for buying my gift. It's a very sweet thought but I'm going to have to slip some money back into her wallet to refund her because she shouldn't be spending her money on me! She also made me a card and it was precious. She is so thoughtful and loving!!!! Then she opened a gift that her Aunt Arlene sent back home with us. It was a makeup kit in a pink sparkly train case. This was her first real set of makeup...I always get her sheer colored lip glosses and small bottles of fingernail polish, etc, but this one actually had real eye shadow, eye liner, lip gloss, fingernail polish, and a complete set of brushes! She felt so grown up!!!! :-) It was time for Libby to go to bed and "Santa" got to work delivering her main desire for this year - a Barbie dreamhouse!!!!! It took a while to get everything settled under the tree and about 1:00am Ryan was standing outside her door with some sleigh bells. :-) I lightly woke her up and asked if she heard the bells. She got the biggest smile on her face and said, "I think he's here!!!" and I told her to go back to sleep so that Santa could stop at our house. :-) Last year she was up at 3:00am to open her presents and I had to make her go back to sleep until 6:00am before she could open presents. :-) This year, though, I woke up at 8:00am and Libby was sleeping soundly! What? I went downstairs to wait and about 8:20am she finally came bounding down the stairs to discover that the jolly old elf had made her dreams come true and had left her a Dreamhouse! The rest of the day she spent playing with her new treasures while I kept trying to clean up (but no matter how much I picked up stuff it still looked like a tornado went through!!). I made our Christmas lunch...a turkey, stuffing, roasted red potatos, and baked cream corn souffle. We finally ate around 3:00pm and after lunch Libby kept playing. She went to her dad's at 5:00pm for her winter break visit with him. Sending her off for her extended visits with her dad never gets easier on me!! I'm now counting down the nights until she gets back home. It will be 10 long nights without her and she comes home on January 4th - the day before her 7th birthday!! I'm volunteering in her class on her birthday so I'll get to spend the entire day with her! :-)
It was a great Christmas for us and I hope that each of you had an equally wonderful Christmas!!!!
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