{The Christmas Hangover}

{.....or the Completely Random Christmas Post}

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The day after Christmas. 

Do you feel like you have been run over by a truck? Cause I kinda do.

And that was with almost twelve hours of sleep.

Yeah, twelve hours, folks. As in I slept in until about 9:45 this morning. For real, that's no typo.
What am I--an infant?  In college?

 Eric didn't even wake me up, he just let me sleep away, cause he's sweet like that.

I think the crazy busy-ness of the week along with not getting home form mass on Christmas Eve until almost 2:00 a.m. all caught up with me. We got a lot of snow on Christmas Eve, it snowed all day long and through the night and it made driving very slow. I picked my mom up for church and took her home, hence the 2:00 a.m. arrival home. I had big plans of staying up last night after the kids went to bed and curling up on the couch with a glass of wine and watching one last Christmas movie...

Christmas Vacation or Miracle on 34th Street. Instead I went to bed when the kids did. 

And was so happy to do so.

We had a busy Christmas. It was so exciting for the kids and fun for us and it was white, very white.
The kids had so much fun with all of their family and are excited to see if anything was left at Grandma's for them tomorrow, too. All the way home  Christmas Eve evening the kids kept saying that that they couldn't believe Christmas was the next morning, they wondered if Santa was coming, wanted us to put carrots out for the reindeer and told us to please go to bed when they did so Santa could hurry up and come. They were so anxious for the morning to come they could hardly stand it.
 Four and six was such a fun age for Christmas this year. And not even just Christmas
 morning but the whole Christmas season. How truly lucky we are to get to experience
Christmas again through the eyes of our children. Packages have been wrapped and unwrapped, hidden and placed under the tree. Stockings stuffed, toys put together, candy & treats delivered.

Today I am surrounded by boxes and wrapping paper and messes on top of messes.
My living room/dining room looks like a bomb went off and I don't really care. For today anyway.
No one has showered/bathed and I declare that this is the day we will stay in our pajamas all day long. Too much tv, chocolate marshmallow Santas....bring it on. I will attempt to go all day with out picking up much or making the kids put away any of their toys. I remember that feeling.... so excited too see all of stuff spread out, playing with one toy, then the next... so much fun.

Today is a day of slothfulness. 

Nowhere to go, no one coming over and absolutely nowhere to be. 

All. day. long.  And I love it.

Tomorrow morning we have our last Holiday celebration with Eric's family and then it will all be over...until next year. I have tried by best, I really have, for us to all enjoy this holiday season this year. And I think we have. And I promise to not ruin it today by snapping on the kids around 3:00 with a raised voice because of the ridiculous mess and way too many toys out and the fact that we can't even really get up the steps due to 1.5 million army men Wyatt has strewn about the house...and that I just can't deal with it anymore and everything is going up to their rooms right now before mommy loses it. Nope, not gonna do it. Things will be put away tomorrow...the tree will probably come down later this week. My house will be clean again soon enough. And sometimes, clean is over-rated anyway.

How was your Christmas? Are you still celebrating too?

Hope you enjoyed a relaxing day at home with your families...

or whatever it was that you really wanted to do today.
And I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas.

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