Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Merry Christmas!

We had an absolutely blissfully lazy first week of break. We slept like teenagers (even those of us who aren't), watched countless Christmas special, baked lots of goodies--some of which made it to other people, and occasionally left the house. Wow, are we good at lazy. NATO closes the Monday before Christmas and doesn't open up again until well after New Years, so David was able to join in the general laziness guilt-free.

Here are some of our favorite things about Christmas:

No School
The general sense of happiness that comes with the season
Opening advent calendars
Making sugar cookies
Christmas Music
Danny Kay and Bing Crosby in blue feathers
Christmas lights
Eating homemade caramel
Nativity scenes
Shopping for those we love
Christmas Cards (Yeah, I know, you haven't seen one from us yet--sorry!)
The smell of Christmas trees
Rearranging Christmas ornaments
Visiting with family and friends
Playing games late at night
Reading Luke 2 on Christmas Eve
Christmas morning in new pajamas--Here we are in ours, plus our new Euro-scarves:

Happy New Year!

We hope yours is safe, healthy, and happy.
We hope ours is too.
XOXO