Christmas

 
We had a humble Christmas. After a really awful knee surgery, and a miserable flu making it's rounds, I was left pretty beaten down. I hired Cessie and Eden to go shopping for a nice Christmas Eve meal, and Christmas breakfast and linner, as well as stocking stuffers. They cooked a beautiful diner that we all sat down together to enjoy on Christmas Eve. In the morning, we had donuts in my room and then we opened presents. Stockings, to be more specific. 

 
We started with the youngest, and worked our way up opening stockings. 

 
And Cessie refused to be photographed.  :/

After stockings, we gave each kid a card that Steve and I wrote messages in, and $50 cash. That was the highlight for the kids probably. Then we had an interview with each kid, one at a time, where we talked about life and whatever they wanted to talk about, and also we talked about how they wanted to spend their money.  

 
And then we went to the Cinemark XD theater where we got to enjoy the recliner seats with our blankets. We watched "The Greatest Showman", which we all enjoyed.  It was a lovely day.