Well now that Christmas is officially over, it's time for me to update y'all about it.
On Christmas eve we went over to my grandmother's house; which is the tradition for my family. My dad's sister and brother were there along with my cousin, her husband, and their three your old son, B. B is actually really good with RR but he was having a good time ignoring everyone. He really seemed to like playing with RR though and looking after her while we were eating dinner. This year we really only did gifts for RR and B. RR got an Alphabet train walk behind/ride upon toy from my grandmother, and my cousin and Aunt got her clothes and a pink little people minivan. She also got money from my Uncle. The adults did do a gift exchange, it was the white elephant game, we got money, which went straight into the RR's new car seat fund.
For christmas after opening gifts with the family at home. We went to the house that one of my aunts on my mother's side rents. My mother's family was there which consisted of two of her five siblings (and their families) and my grandmother. One of my three cousin's present had a baby six months before RR was born and they her RR a little fisher price talking dog (we ended up returning it and getting the leapfrog dog instead). We did the white elephant gift exchange there too.
Our last christmas thing was this past weekend. We traveled back up to see the hubby's family. I gave his mother a hand made dolphin that I put RR's footprint and name on. And She got RR one of those read along books, a fisher price dog, and a little pick blanket. The trip wasn't too bad, his mom spent a lot of time with RR and she hadn't when we visited before. I was going to put a stop to visiting them if she didn't spend time with us. It was really rubbing me the wrong way that she would complain about how she didn't get to see RR but when we had visited she had chose not to spend all her time with her.
So christmas and Yule were good this year. I'm looking forward to next year and hopefully we'll be in our own home by then.
~Cathrin.
