Christmas bells are ringing!

Ah, what a joyous and uplifting time of year. Relief Society this past Thursday was wonderful. We enjoyed some great preformances by sisters in the ward, both of singing and the spoken word. Yummy treats and visiting were enjoyed by all. Over at my house, our little family spent a nice though short evening together watching a video about the first Christmas, and drank snowman soup (hot cocoa with a hug, a kiss, and a couple of marshmallows thrown in). Christmas morning was actually rather late since our little ones are too young to wake themselves up extra early on days like this so we spent a lazy morning poking through our stockings, opening up and assembling presents, and generally enjoying each other. The afternoon brought a trip to see my grandmother and her neighbors who take care of her. My grandmother gave me a beautiful tree skirt that she made many years ago with a nativity scene depicted on it. It was so nice to visit her again. Christmas night saw us all tucked in our own beds, exhausted from the long weekend, and happy to savor a simple and relatively uneventful day. -sigh- How I love simple, beautiful days.