A Bundle of Myrrh

Here’s my futile attempt at getting a picture of the girls under our tree. These first two were the best I could get.

Lily wouldn’t put Clara’s bloomers down for anything so they made it in some of the pictures. Aren’t they nice?

Clara wanted to eat the camera so I gave her a block as a compromise. It’s kind of like a camera.

I think I’ll try again tomorrow when Phil can help out or better, sit in the picture with them.

After this “photo shoot” and lunch with our church secretary who told us that her family would be getting together to make cookies and play games on Christmas Eve I was feeling pretty down. As two of my favorite days of the year approach it gets a little harder to be cheerful. The best part of Christmas is of course celebrating the birth of our Savior Jesus who put on human flesh for us in order to die for our sins but it’s also such a nice time just to be with family. As I’ve said before I’m so thankful to have my own little family now and that does make it easier to not be able to get home for Christmas in some ways, but it’s hard to know that with 3 church services Phil won’t be around much on Christmas Eve and Christmas day he’s just so wiped out. I just really miss my “extra” family and sitting around on Christmas day at Mama’s, opening gifts one at a time for 5 hours, snoozing and snacking the day away.
I think I’ll feel better once the girls are older and we can do things together. So a big boo-hoo for me today and a cup of hot chocolate to make everything better!