I have great memories of Christmas. My parents always decorated the house (indoors AND outdoors,) bought and sent presents to our relatives, made lots of cookies, wrote Christmas cards to everyone we knew, bought and dressed us in cute clothes for family photos, roasted chestnuts in the fireplace, and still managed to buy us all presents (including filling large stockings that we suckered them into buying one year.) We always got great gifts from Santa, and we had all of our favorite things to eat for the entire week we had off from school.
Being a parent gives me a whole new level of respect and appreciation for the things that your parents did.
Contrast that with our house -- no tree, no Christmas cards, two batches of cookies (which we ate before we could share with friends and family,) no presents for Olivia, and no food in the refrigerator.
Luckily for Olivia, she has amazing grandparents on both sides of the family. We drove to San Jose to spend Christmas Day with the Knights. I'll post pictures and stories from our day soon.
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