"Opening presents and eating dinner..." I answer.
"Yeah," they say, "but what about after that?"
"Uhh..."
See, we Lindleys don't plan out our holidays hour by hour. We don't like too. So on Christmas day, instead of getting up early, opening presents for an hour, eating, then moving on to the next planned activity, we stay flexible!
Take this morning for instance. We got up whenever we all woke up, which happened to be around 8am. The stockings were cut down from the banister and we pulled everything out!
After our yearly dose of chocolate and candy was revealed, Dad passed out everything from under the tree. We came out good this year! To name a few things - Mom got a couple new scarves, Dad got his traditional boxes of chocolate, Emma got the Guinness Book of World Records 2014 and an iPod Nano, and I got a cover for my Nook and a few new picture frames.
Oh yeah, and for movies... Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, Iron Man 2, and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. WHAT!!! :D
After we open presents, there's no big plan. Lunch will be at about 1pm, but Mom doesn't want us all in the kitchen in her way, so we get to decide what we want to do.
It always depends on what we just got. If we got a game, we'd play that. If it was a book, reading session! This year, we watched Percy Jackson since Dad hadn't seen it yet.
Did you catch the Firefly reference in that movie? Yes, it's in there :)
Lunch was DELICIOUS! And after we figured out and used our new Sodastream machine (thank you Gramma!), we all split off to our different areas for a few hours. I claimed a spot on the couch with my nook and a bag of Gardetto's and chilled for a few hours.
And here I sit! Watching Alaska: The Last Frontier with Mom and enjoying our vacation.
Day 30 of our vacation to be exact....
Merry Christmas :)
What are your Christmas day traditions?
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