good gifts

Christmas was happy.

Christmas Eve, we ate turkey with the neighbor by lantern since the power went out. We went to friends' for the nativity story. The kids opened jammies, and slept soundly.


Christmas morning: Ana got ice skates.

Jack got Dave's old train set.

They were happy.
We went to a local park where they had a small snow-covered ice pond and let Ana skate around. It was cold, but she liked it. We played Mario Party, ate turkey sandwiches, and had a nice ham dinner with some friends.

Happy day.

The emotional let down after Christmas has always been hard for me to deal with. It came and went so quickly, with a million things on my to do list that didn't get done. I sat down last night and thought about the day. And cried.

I thought about Jack and how excited he is about his train and his bulldozers.

Mostly, I thought about Ana and what a wonderful girl she is. Giving and social and energetic. And how I hope she knows that I love her so very much.

Then this came to mind:

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

(Matthew 7:11)

May 2011 be full of good things for all of us. Merry Christmas!