Merry Christmas

Charlotte, Alexander, and I visited Cleveland right before Christmas. We returned on the 23rd, and jumped right into our last-minute Christmas preparations. We were a bit tired from our pre-Christmas adventure (about which we will post soon), but kicked off our celebration by attending a Children's Mass on Christmas Eve. It was a lovely evening, so we walked and avoided the parking nightmare. Upon our return home, we found that the angels had left a few gifts and had placed Baby Jesus in the manger!


This morning we awoke to find stockings filled by Father Christmas and gifts from each other and our extended family. We enjoyed a pancake breakfast together and then opened our gifts. Thank you to everyone who remembered us this Christmas.

Charlotte was very excited to receive a new purse from Auntie Tracey, especially as she had broken the strap on her other purse just yesterday. Alexander was grateful to Charlotte for his "Alexander" mug.

All of us were excited to receive tickets to see The Nutcracker Ballet!

After dinner we watched the Queen's Speech together, as we do every year. Merry Christmas!