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Christmas with My Family

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This year we celebrated Christmas with my family the Monday following Christmas, when Katy and Tom returned from celebrating Christmas with Tom’s family in Cleveland.

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Sophie immediately ran over to Kyle and asked to be held, something quite different from months past.

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In addition to sandwiches, my mom and dad made homemade chicken noodle and mushroom barley soups—yum. Kyle and Christina brought homemade bread and hummus.

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Sophie thoroughly enjoyed her first buckeye for dessert.

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Stockings first!

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Mom and Dad did a big basement cleaning this fall, so we found some basement “treasures” in our stocking. Dad put an old OU bumper sticker and a copy of The Post from the 1970s with a picture of a streaker on the front. Here Mom’s holding up graduation pictures of her and my dad, which my Dad found.

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Mom made Katy and Tom beautiful stockings.

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Sophie, among many other things, got an amazing pop-up version of We’re Going On a Bear Hunt from Aunt Katy and Uncle Tom.

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Christina and Kyle got lots of cooking supplies and gadgets.

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Sophie recently spent the night at my parents’ house and, while there, made a super-secret Christmas craft project for us. She even wrapped it—and was so excited to give it to us.

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It’s a beautiful Christmas wreath—made up of her tiny green hand prints—with red berries. Now I understand the immense love for your own children’s work—no matter the quality. (But really, it’s a work of art, don’t you think?) ((See what I mean!?))

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Sophie soon thereafter fell asleep in Uncle Tom’s arms.

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But she then refused to continue sleeping when we tried to put her down for a real nap. So, instead, she loaded up all her new toys in her Radio Flyer wagon and pushed it around.

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Yep, you guessed it. (Or maybe you didn’t.) Charades.

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My favorite view from home.

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A good, good night.

“I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.” —Harlan Miller

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