Christmas

I have noticed that this past year I have taken fewer pictures. I think that this is due (at least in part) to the fact that I want to be more in the moment and less concerned with trying to get the perfect picture. It seems that I am unable to do both.

So on Christmas morning I sipped coffee and enjoyed watching the girls open their gifts. I snapped a few pictures on my phone of the girls with their presents and then I snapped a few more while we snuggled on the couch after breakfast. 

Christmas was great. It was relaxed and fun and it made me happy.

But I admit that I miss being "home" with my family for Christmas - and I use the quotes because really this house that I am in right now is home. I miss having my parents and brother around to do all of our Christmas traditions (i.e. going to see a movie on Christmas Eve, playing the Chipmunks on Christmas morning to wake the stragglers up, watching National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, etc.). So we have started our own traditions as a family of four. I know that these traditions will be the ones that Lucy and Caroline remember. So even though I am sad every now and then, it is easy to get over it when I see their happy faces.