Grandma's House

We came up on Wednesday afternoon to visit Grandma for the Holidays. It has been good to be up here to visit and spend time with all our family. It was a little different not being at home for Christmas Eve but special to enjoy the traditions with Grandma and Kieth. When James took the kids to Utah on the 19th, I gave the kids the choice to go and spend 4 days before Christmas with Grandma or stay at home where their presents were. I explained as best as I could that Santa wasn't going to be able to leave their gifts in Utah because we couldn't get them back. We wouldn't have enough room in our car for all of our luggage and presents. They chose to spend time with Grandma--but I think they thought twice about that decision on Christmas morning when there wasn't much under the tree for them. It was a little difficult to watch as a mom, but a good lesson as well about the true meaning of Christmas. Grandma was wonderful to buy some toys that would stay at her house but that they could play with while they were there. Malak really cracked me up while we were opening presents because he just got really comfortable and propped himself onto his belly and held is head in his hands and just watched so closely. He was really focused on what was happening.


On Christmas Eve we had a little spiritual lesson about the true meaning of some Christmas Songs. It was really neat to understand what the songs were about and their hidden meaning. I will never look at the "Twelve Days of Christmas" the same again. Then we sang some of the songs and let the kids open their pajamas that Grandma bought for them. We had a lot of fun!

Christmas morning was very quiet. It was just my family, Grandma, Kieth and Lizzy. It was so nice to watch then open their gifts and then eat our traditional breakfast together of toast, ham and orange juice. We just hung out the rest of the day until all the siblings got there. We had a wonderful Christmas dinner and enjoyed everyone's company. We got to play a fun game with the gifts that we had brought for exchanging. It was pretty mellow until Brent stole a gift from somebody else and then all the fun started. You have to be careful in the Wright family to not get everybody too upset..you know we all have anger management problems!! Ha ha! It turned out to be alot of fun and a new tradition that we will carry on every year on Christmas Day.