The tree before we opened gifts.
Salinda and Sadie waiting until 8 when we wake up the oldest boys.
Sadie reading the Christmas story from Luke -- one of our traditions before opening gifts.
Tony in New York attire
Things started a little rough this morning with Dominyk and Tony both up at 6:30. We have an agreement, to appease the teenagers, that we won’t start opening until 8:00. It was a long 90 minutes. I finally gave up and got up at 7 to try to keep them calm. Tony was relentless and Dominyk hyper. But the opening of gifts went well. We do them one at a time and it was a good thing that we cut back this year, because it still took almost 2 hours to unwrap everything. In previous years it took 3, and it was just too much. When kids are bored of unwrapping, they have been given too much.
Up to this point everyone has been able to be civil and grateful. Tony is almost starting to lose it and Mike and Kyle have disappeared to commiserate and bicker as usual, but at least they have learned to be nearly appropriate. I would say, up to this point in the day, this has been the best Christmas we have had so far in regards to meltdowns and negativity.
But I must point out that it is only 10:21 a.m.
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