Twas the Night Before Christmas

I gotta say, I love the whole getting the day off before Christmas thing. We had an awesome family day that felt like the perfect way to celebrate the holidays. (On side note-- the family day included me going to Zumba with my mom at the club....no joke.....the class was packed and there was a 70 year old in it!).

Last year we started a tradition where we go to the kids mass at St Mary's Cathedral where the children from the school act out the story of Jesus's birth and the homily is really geared towards kids. The baby Jesus was SO adorable and the kids were SO cute. Then we went out to dinner and had a SUPER yummy dinner.

Despite being incredibly full, we rushed home to make cookies for Santa. This year is a BIG year as Henry has agreed, for the first time, to actually let Santa in the house. In previous years, Santa had to leave the stuff on the deck and mom and dad had to bring it in as Henry thought it odd that a man he didn't know was coming into our house.

That said, he was worried that Santa wouldn't know that the cookies were inside, instead of the normal routine of being outside.

So....he left him a note.....taped to our front door. The kid is making sure he doesn't make Mr Santa angry....there are presents involved.