Yes, I realize how late this is!

Christmas has been an adventure of epic proportions.  I have been here and there and everywhere it seems but it has been wonderful fun!  V arrived here Christmas Eve already asleep and we slept until 9:30 Christmas day.  Normally that would be completely unacceptable in the Flanders household but, in the case, I enjoyed it quite immensely!  Christmas here is an early event to be enjoyed only after Dad has a diet pepsi and Mom has a cup of hot coffee.  The gifts must be photographed in their places and then, and only then, one start distributing the gifts from Santa.

Sidenote: Yes, I am an almost 29 (in just one day) year old woman.  Yes, I do write Santa a letter.  Yes, I do believe.  You see...we have a little saying here in the Flanders house..."When you cease to believe, you cease to receive!"  So folks, you can see why I believe.

V got lots of wonderful things from Santa, Me, Granny and Pop, Uncle Chuck, and Uncle Doug.  She got fake food, and movies, and books, and toys, and babies, and baby carriers, and clothes, and and and...It was excellent to see her having so much fun.  She laughed and giggled and oohed and ahhed.  This was the first time I have seen her really excited about unwrapping gifts.  It cracked me up!  I will say that only one gift makes me crazy.  V has, in the past, gotten fake food and cooking sets.  She loves to cook and make pretend meals.  I thought it would be a wonderful idea to buy her a giant set of all kinds of fake food.  That would have been fine except this particular set of fake food came with like 20 small fake hot dogs (and strangely enough, no buns).  So she drives her grocery cart around the house and hot dogs come flying out everywhere...the dogs are chasing her eating fake hot dogs and I am trying to pick them up as she goes.  It was kind of stressful for someone like me that has a touch of OCD.

Fried turkey, a few games of cranium, and the world's best nap were the perfect ending to an amazing Christmas.  Sorry you are just getting the update now!