after dan's company party we laid low,and with our free time decided to celebrate our little family christmas. we usually travel for christmas and so dan and i have a tradition of celebrating our own christmas at our house. i have no idea what our traditions with donovan will be or if they will be fluid depending on the year, but i do hope we are able to keep our tradition of having a christmas with our immediate family. we do not do anything big, just turn onchristmas music, sit on the floor and hang out.
things are less complicated this year since donovan's priority is crawling around instead of leavingdan has always been a fantastic gift giver. he always obviously puts lots of thought into
his gifts and surprises me each year. we give each other stockings filled with gifts that usually have a theme. each year i
try to come up with a gift that i feel that dan will like, and although he is always gracious for what i give i can tell that he would have ratherme not spent the money to clutter up the house. this year instead of spending money in hopes i find something he really likes, i went to the grocery store and filled his stocking with things he uses. i failed again this year with the gifts, but at least i do not have to look at the clutter and think, "why did i buy that?"
when we were finished opening gifts we were watching donovan play in the torn paper instead of with his new toys, and i began doing my thing of looking for approval from my failed christmas gifts. dan looking at donovan said "that is my christmas gift from you". now i know that sounds cheesy and like some sort of movie line...or even the line that you might expect him to say during a perfect christmas moment, but to me it was precious. for those of you gagging about the love that dan and i spewed ...or rather i spewed.......all over this blog post be assured that dan is not getting soft he just had a moment........ and then
he spent the next day at the panther's game celebrating the annual "man day"........
No comments:
Post a Comment