The Adams Family: Holidays

For the first time in my life we spend the holidays without family, well, other than each other and our two little munchkins. We stayed in Wilmington and laughed as we thought about how it felt like we were "playing grown up."

To bring some tradition to our holidays we had the Owen family traditional Christmas Eve dinner of shrimp and cheese fondue. We invited over some friends to join us for dinner and had a nice time. We also made it out for a Christmas Eve service, although it was at 4 pm (times have changed with little ones). We tried out a church that I had been thinking about for a while and I really enjoyed the service. Andy was in charge of George and had to walk him around outside a few times, however, Ruth fell asleep on my chest after flirting with a little boy that was sitting next to me and drew admiring gazes as I walked up for communion with her.

This Christmas was not "outrageous" for presents, but we were excited as we set up for a surprised little guy the next morning. Santa produced and George was thrilled with his new bike, and rode it around all morning. He was also quite delighted with the trains that have been added to his collection. Ruth sat quietly as she smiled at her brother and enjoyed his excitement. She was tickled with some of the "recycled" toys that showed up under the tree for her (and we think George was smitten with them as well).

We had a wonderful brunch with out friends the Giblins and George had fun playing with his best buddy Daniel. Andy and I then made the attempt at individual beef wellingtons (again, another Owen family tradition for Christmas dinner) and it was a huge success! We also opened up one of our "good" wines to enjoy with our holiday meal. All and all I would say that Christmas was a wonderful time had by all in our household!