The Daily Hailey

We spent the day are my parents house, eating huge meals, opening presents, playing toys, reading stories, and generally enjoying each others company. While things were always moving at full speed with the kids, it was a relatively relaxed day.

We headed over first thing in the morning in our comfy clothes, as usual. The kids were in some of their new jammies, as tends to happen. We were greeted by yummy smells and friendly voices. We ate ourselves silly, devouring scrambled eggs, bacon, hashbrown casserole, croissants, sliced up oranges (did everyone else notice the serious lack of Christmas oranges out this year? We didn’t buy a single box!!) and we topped it off with chocolate milk! And coffee, of course. My goodness, it was SO good. I could’ve eaten all of the hashbrowns on my own, my goodness.

We moved from brunch to presents pretty quickly, and we all cashed in pretty smoothly, I’d say! Once their gifts were opened, Brady set them up downstairs to play with some of their new toys, and then us adults opened our gifts together in the quiet. Solly slept through the whole thing! Post-presents, the kids cracked out their new puzzles, along with some coloring, and spent a good chunk of the afternoon at the table. It was nice and relaxed and really felt like Christmas.

Solly eventually woke up and whined like a big ole baby (fitting) until it was time to eat. And when it was time, WOW did he eat!!! We had the whole Christmas feed, with turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, honey carrots, gravy, cranberry sauce, and our traditional orange jello loaded to the gills with peaches 🙂 Now, for a quick (but very well deserved) brag moment, if you think you’ve enjoyed a turkey dinner before, you would be blown away by the feast my mom prepares seemingly so effortlessly! Never once has her turkey been dry, or her gravy sub-par. Every time, she hems and haws about “Well, this isn’t my best gravy” but she’s always wrong, because it usually is. Seriously, her turkey feasts are a thing for the record books. We, for the second time of the day, ate ourselves silly.

Now, I am humungous, and the kids are weirdly energetic. Tryptophan, I was counting on you. I guess even turkey magic can’t take away the delight of Christmas!

We are home, kids are in bed, and a bath is run for this tired couple! It was a super great day, though! Sadly, Brady is working tomorrow, which isn’t my favorite thing, but will be ok. We’ve had a few really lovely days all together, and we will still have more. Tomorrow we’ll just keep low key and cozy, with lots of new toys to play with!

I hope you all had LOVELY Christmas days with your loved ones!! <3 And if your celebrations are still to come, I hope they’re exactly what you want them to be. Have a blessed season, friends!