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Christmas 2019

I remind all you smart people that social media is a highly filtered snapshot of the moments of life we choose to share. 

 Christmas day ended up being more of a learning experience than me and B had hoped for, but the weekend before....

B and I nailed Christmas.

In odd numbered years the skids spend Christmas and New Year with their mom. For us that means no Santa. No stockings. No early deliveries. Santa comes to where they are waking up on Christmas Day.  We knew there would be no shortage of unwrapping presents since both B and I have very generous families so we choose to go with 1 box supporting an experience for each skid.


Asharp got to dig through box after box to open gift-cards and appointment slots to the American Girl store. Her doll got a spa treatment; her hair did; some shopping and then Asharp, her doll, my sister, and I went to the cafe for a 3 course meal. I HIGHLY recommend the bistro experience if you have someone into American Girl. The Bistro was surprisingly reasonable and yummy!

Bminor's gift could have just been that he didn't need to go with ASharp and me to the American Girl Store. That would have been sufficient but we didn't think that was fully fair.

Bminor had to work his way to his event. B is a jerk some times, shocking I know, and put a gift-wrapped box of rocks into his big box of presents. Poor Bminor had no idea what to make of it! But then the gifts started and it was all good! Bminor was given a Falcons' jersey and tickets to the Falcons game. The kid almost lost his mind. He's been asking to go to the Mercedes-Benz Stadium at any possible opportunity and this year he got to see the inside of the stadium, watch the Falcons, say hi to Dan Quinn as he walked on to the field, and see the Falcons win.

Not really sure how we will top this, but I'm feeling experiences are going to be more present in our home.

From us to you....



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