My family has been visiting for Christmas from the far flung reaches of SC and Ga. As there was a good bit of snow leftover from last w-e's snowstorm, those southern kids were happy. I took them sledding near UNCA. I kept checking periodically to see if they were ready to go stop and head back to the house. Despite the cold and the wind they kept at it for a long time. But once Ethan did a face plant, as he put it, and Emma's fingers were icy from being cold and wet, they called it quits. We had a great time and I'm really glad they still had snow to experience on this trip. When you live in the deep south as they all do, you can remember almost every snow you experience as a child, and it's special. In fact, it was one of the reasons we hosted Christmas for everyone this year. And we were lucky enough to have snow for them to enjoy. Unfortunately, rain moved in last night, and it was cold, windy and raw. Not such great weather for sledding. Oh well.
I know that this will come as a bit of a surprise, but he kids wanted to open their presents on Christmas eve. Whole parts of the living room had been given over to gifts piled high. The tree, our measly little artificial number, could barely contain our gifts much less all the ones from grandparents, aunts, and uncles for the little ones. Suffice to say that it looked like a tornado had torn through a toy store after they were finished unwrapping all of those gifts last night. The Asheville house is pretty small by today's standards, but it seems really small with 13 people, 4 dogs and mounds of Christmas presents.
I was able to snap this photo of Santa last night as one of the mini but mighty rein-dachsunds arrived at our house
Have a Merry Christmas!!!
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