2008 Christmas Review

Once upon a Christmas in the Donatini household there was much celebrating going on. The two little girls, Mya and Sara, were very excited about Christmas. They went to church Christmas Eve and learned about baby Jesus and His birth. They played with their cousins and then settled down for the evening in their nice warm beds. Once they were asleep for the night, their parents had a party. They put all the christmas presents under the tree, set up the nativity scene, lit a candle and spent time in prayer with God. Then they looked at each other with excitement and decided it would be really fun to open their presents without the kids. So they did! There was much celebrating over all the fun presents: a Garmin watch, a pearl ring, a trip to Kalahari in January, new boxers, a T-shirt, and a coat. In the morning, Sara woke up bright and early (6 AM) and Mya soon followed at 6:30. Mya giggled with glee when she saw all the presents under the tree. The first words out of her mouth were, "Good morning Mommy! How are you today?" The whole family gathered around the christmas tree, but first the Daddy held both girls on his lap in the rocking chair and read the christmas story to them. Then he took their hands in his and prayed with them. The girl's mommy watched in admiration and celebrated silently because her husband was so special. Next, the girls opened all of their presents and played with each toy that they opened. Mya enjoyed wearing her new underwear over her clothes. Sara practiced rolling across the floor to get to all the fun toys with tags on them. All in all it was a wonderful morning as the family settled down to eat some breakfast and then got in the car to go to another christmas celebration. The rest of the day was filled with lots and lots of presents, fun times with relatives, and grape chapstick that Mya put on her lips all day long.

The family lived happily ever after.

I do need to share a very funny story before I finish this entry. Dan had a white elephant gift exchange at his office on Wednesday. As we looked around the house for something to wrap up, I jokingly said that he should use tampons (because my friend mentioned using maxi pads as a white elephant gift) and make something creative out of them. Now those of you who know Danny's track record as a young child know that he once experimented with tampons and his GI Joe men. Well he took my joke seriously and took two tampons and tied them together. Oh yes.... my husband decided to make numchucks out of tampons. He even demonstrated how to use them for me. It was hysterical! We wrapped up the tampon numchucks and threw in a $5 Wal-Mart gift card for the poor soul who got the gift. Turns out the only other male that Dan works with got the tampon numchucks as a gift. And yes, oh yes, Dan showed his employees how to use the weapon too. He made them laugh pretty hard!