Christmas Morning

Christmas morning was not quite what I expected this year. At 10pm on Christmas Eve Carri called to tell us that her flight from PHX to ONT had been cancelled and they would have to stay over night in PHX and would not be in until 8:50am on Christmas morning. Carri was really upset and begged us not to open any presents until she was there. So we woke up and stalled and stalled. We let Porter come out and see his presents from Santa and showed him his bike and got him to ride around and then sent him to the airport. When they got back from the airport we ate breakfast, because we were all starving, and then finally at like 9:45am Porter got to open his presents. By that time Ruby was ready for a nap so she didn't open anything. The Merrill's were at their grandparents and wanted us to wait for them to open family presents so we didn't do that until after 10:30am. By then Ruby had woken up and watched us open her presents even though she looked dazed. We exchanged presents and boy did it feel like we had tons of presents. I even decided to take back a couple of presents I had bought for Porter and Ruby. Since there are so many of us these days the present exchange lasted for what seemed like an hour. Together we got 4 Wii games, lots and lots of toys, clothes, gift certificates and I even got new glasses! Even though it seemed like torture to wait all morning long it really made Christmas last longer and more relaxed I think. I always like Christmas to be organized and slow or it seems like it is over before it started.