Christmas Day

Today is Christmas. The boys have been very excited, especially Rhys. He has practically been vibrating.

My folks came down and stayed with us last night. They brought my grandfather and his incontinent, zombie dog. Gramps and the dead dog walking slept in Rhys' bed. They pee'd in it.

Rhys slept on our floor. He was awake at 0445. Tracy managed to get him to hang out until 0545, when Owyn woke up. Even for our boys, this is early, but, of course, it is Christmas. Tracy and I took great pleasure in sending the boys to wake up Nana & Grandad. "Wake up! Santa! Christmas!"

We were down stairs by 0600. Our neighbor's lights were already on. I was glad we weren't the only ones. We opened presents and drank coffee. It was a good year for gifts for all of us. Santa brought Owyn a farm set and Rhys a Geo-Trax set. They were both set up and ready to go. Owyn also got a train set for Geo-Trax, so they were both able to play with it. That was the grand slam hit of the day.

Owyn pretty much lost interest in opening more presents because he was so busy with the ones that he already had. Rhys opened all of his then "helped" Owyn with his.

I was very pleased with everything I got, including some things that I didn't even know I wanted until I opened them and realized that my life had been incomplete without them.