Christmas Eve

Today, we spent a relatively quiet day at home, preparing for Christmas.

As we have done every morning in the month of December, we started the day opening our advent calendar. There was such excitement because it was the last "window" but a bit of disappointment that it was also the last piece of chocolate.

Later in the morning, I took the big boys up to their room so they could wrap their presents for Daddy and Baby Sully. They each got their own safety scissors and roll of tape and somehow managed to use both rolls wrapping 3 packages - it was hysterical.

They were so proud of their beautiful wrapping job and brought the presents downstairs to put under the tree. When they showed Gill they said "look daddy, we wrapped your planet present and Baby Sully's trains!" So much for a surprise.

Gill spent some special time making Christmas Cookies for Santa with Patrick and Finnegan.

We headed off to Christmas Eve Mass as a family. Even though we arrived an hour early, St. Matthew Church was already at capacity and they were turning people away. We ventured to Calvary, and enjoyed a beautiful service complete with a children's nativity and candlelight.

My favorite part of the service may have been Finnegan blowing out my candle during Silent Night. He did it 3 times, each time telling me he "made a wish". It was Baby Jesus' Birthday, after all!

After service, we had dinner in our PJ's and put out cookies for Santa and apples & oranges for his reindeer. Gill read the family The Polar Express and the boys all went to sleep.

Sleep in Heavenly Peace.