Holidays 2008

Annabel had a blast this Holiday season.

She has been in full-on Holiday mode for about a solid month. It started with a Hanukkah celebration at her school and ended last night with a sprite toast to the New Year in a real champaign flute.

She absolutely loved the holidays. Watching her was like taking a lesson in Jolliness. She pranced, danced and sang her way around the house.

She still believes in Santa Claus, but senses that there is something strange about the knowing tone that people use when they talk about him. She ran into Mrs. Claus this year at the Christmas Tree farm and immediately snapped into her best behavior. After Mrs. Claus walked away, she ran over to me and asked me if I thought she had been good this year. I assured her that she had.

On Christmas eve, she set out a plate of cookies that she made for Santa and then surprised us by putting the plate on a small end table near our window, then getting a chair and some pillows and setting those up so that Santa would have a place to sit and eat his cookies.

Then she had the great idea of putting her tights out for Santa instead of a stocking because there was more room for presents in the tights (2 legs worth!).

She was the first one up on Christmas morning at about 6:30am :( We woke up everyone else and went up to open presents. Annabel ran over to the chair and found the note that Santa left. It said that the tights were too small for his hands so he left their presents in stockings, but that it was a good idea.

Annabel was delighted with the whole thing.