All Edwards family Christmas traditions are on schedule. The boys and I did our annual Christmas Eve shopping trip for Brenda. We started out before the sun rose. We always shop for her Christmas Eve together. Each year we get some surprises. Four stores and two meals later with a car full of sleeping Edwards boys we returned home victorious.
Next, we ordered our traditional Christmas Eve dinner of pizza. Soon we will be off to look at Christmas lights and most will choose hot chocolate as the beverage of choice, eve though a glass of cold chocolate milk might be more appropriate this unseasonably warm year.
We will return to watch THE CHRISTMAS STORY. Eventually we will all drift off to bed and you can bet at 6:00 a.m. the boys will be ready to open gifts.
I will read the Christmas story in the morning. We will all pray around the living room thanking God for HIs provision. We will sing "Happy Birthday" to Jesus and then one by one go around in a circle opening gifts. All this will be followed by a family trip to the movie theater to watch a movie of our choosing.
The routine has not changed in 20 years of having kids. They are older now but I am amazed from oldest to the youngest how much they enjoy and remind me of these time treasured traditions. I enjoy them because I get to share them with my favorite people in the world. Brenda, Taylor, Tanner, Tucker, and Turner Edwards.
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