I've heard that Christmas is for the kids. I think that's not quite right. I think Christmas is for the kid inside each of us, and my little girl had a great weekend.
Jesse spent a good 6 hours on Friday asking when everyone was going to be here. Thank goodness Jocelyn had a full day of school or she would have done the same. They were considerably more excited to have all their cousins here than to open presents.
By 5pm we had the whole brood in the house - 9 kids and 8 adults. It makes for some noise I'll tell ya! Food, games, Hanukkah, food, games, food, bed.
As per usual, not all that much sleeping, though we got a later start than usual Saturday morning due to a few stragglers. I think I finally woke Jocelyn up around 8.
The kids did a great job with gifts. With 17 people opening presents 1 at a time, it can be a long wait in between! Various children took breaks to go play with this toy or that at random times. Morgan stopped by once in a while and we'd have him open several while we had him.
After gifts mom and dad headed home and Reese went down for a nap and Jeff and Timothy went to the store for lunch supplies. Jeff made up burgers and dogs and Rob did the grilling. The burgers were awesome! Then Elisabeth and family headed home as well and the kids went off to fight over who was the boss of everyone for a while. I took a bath and a nap and then was ready for round 2.
More Hanukkah, food, bed and then we watched Home for the Holidays. Definitely more sleep on night 2!
In the morning we were all surprised to see that Santa had come AGAIN! Especially Jesse, who stood in the game room screaming "SANTA CAME AGAIN!" until all the kids were gathered 'round to see.
Jeff cooked us all breakfast and then we watched Rocco (the dog) while the Roberge family saw other Roberge family for the day in CT. I don't think Jesse left Rocco alone the whole time, including the time Rocco spent snoring on the couch next to me.
More Hanukkah and then early bedtime for me. It was an exhausting weekend but oh so worth it. All the Roberge girls spoke to me voluntarily, and while Chase isn't exactly my bff regularly, I did get quite an enthusiastic hug from him when Elisabeth opened her new iPad :) I was even brave enough to attempt eye contact with Reese. ooops, maybe next year! hee hee
I got to watch the littler cousins crawl all over the giant that is Timothy, and see them have little conversations over mini-pizzas. Patience, while waiting for her turn on the ipad, asked if I knew that Sage was the chubbiest baby. Sage confided that it took her a while to get the head-gear on to her American Girl. Ruby gave me a run down of the apps she had. And having someone else doing all the cooking (and cleaning of the kitchen!) on Saturday and Sunday was dreamy! My heart is full.
Well it's time for more Hanukkah, guess I better wake Jesse up (he fell asleep on the couch a while ago, Jocelyn is off playing tea party in her room and Timothy's playing last night's Hanukkah present on PS3).
Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday!
Rhonda
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