So there I was.... sitting on the toilet on the 3rd floor of my mother-in-law's house on Christmas day. No, I won't fill you with details about what went on in there!
But I took a few extra moments while emptying the pipes, to take in all the noise coming from above and below me. My two oldest daughters were upstairs with their cousins, playing hide-and-seek. Not a big deal - unless you take into account that the cousins only speak French. To hear my daughters counting in French and doing their best to get past the language barrier to have fun :D Makes for a wonderful experience.
Later on, I sat at the dining room table surrounded in loads of family... I thought back to my first Christmas spent here... Alex (my nephew) was just a baby, and Stevie was only 4. This year, there were 4 cousins running up and down the stairs chasing after one another while Victoria toddled around the living room. We've added a generation to the household. . . The presents overflowed under the tree. The love, all around. Family. Christmas. Home.
I took a deep breath and closed my eyes and smiled from the inside out. All that I have seems so otherworldly... but here I am :)
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| Alex, Stevie, Martin and Ava - jibjabbing it up! |
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| Who is this clown? |
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| Rudolphs, the red nosed reindeer! |
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Merry Christmas!
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| There IS such a thing as "too much Christmas." |
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