2020 marks our first Christmas in our new house. Our first Christmas with a fireplace to hang stockings. Our first Christmas with three kiddos! And to top things off, it was our first full day without another adult in the house since Elvin (the twins shmush name) came home from the hospital. Between my parents and our newly-hired nanny - who is absolutely wonderful! - we've had an abundance of help these first two months. But Christmas Day we were completely on our own. And we survived! Video calls with family and baby-wearing saved the day :) We even ate well, thanks to freezer meals and a bit of forethought.
All season long I had been on the hunt for new Christmas stockings for the kids. I looked online at Amazon, Target, and Etsy and never found a set that I liked enough to splurge on. Fortunately, someone in our "Buy Nothing" group posted three knit stockings the week of Christmas and I was lucky enough to snag them. Mr. Fleece installed the hooks and we hung them on Christmas Eve...just in the (Saint) nick of time! It made my holiday heart happy to see them hanging on the hearth. My other Christmas wish was taking photos as a family. These images make my heart happy too! What a chaotic little Christmas crew.
In all of these pictures we are literally telling NLW "Hold the pillow. Hold onto the pillow."
Desperately hoping he won't grab, poke, or scratch a sibling.
Sweet sugar plums,
- SJW
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