The Miracles of Christmas

Unbelievably, the boys have had several really good days in a row. Wednesday we went to lunch with friends and all their kiddos and they all sat in their seats, played and laughed for 2 hours while us mama's chatted away. Then Thursday we went to lunch at Chris's office party and again they were all happy and well behaved. Yesterday was a very low-key day. We concentrated on traditional Christmas Eve stuff like hanging our stockings and putting out the snack for Santa. We went to the early kid-oriented church service and again, they were perfect. Seth was so cute. He kept looking at the clock and whispering to me that Jesus was almost here. He was so disappointed when I told him Jesus would not be making an appearance. We spent the car ride home talking about the real reason for the season and how Jesus lives inside of our hearts.

After we got home they all changed into their Christmas jammies and we had dinner. We were planning on fixing hot chocolate and driving around looking at lights but it started to storm so we opted to write letters thanking Santa and letting him know how much we love him. Then it was 3 boys tucked into bed and watching a Christmas movie. They all fell asleep pretty easily.

This morning we had to wake up the two little guys to start the festivities. Santa had indeed come during the night. I will have pictures and more details later, for now I am focusing on how well everyone is doing. We are dragging out the presents throughout the entire day. First was Santa, then later stockings, followed by breakfast, then presents from grand parents. Now we are playing with what they have opened so far. The rest of the presents have to wait until Kaytee and Ashley get here from their Dad's house. Miraculously, there has not been any whining and begging to open the rest of the gifts.

After we open gifts we are having a traditional Danish holiday meal then we are going to watch the new movie they got from Grandma and Grandpa J and then off to bed.

Why are my little guys doing so well? I honestly have no idea. I am not doing anything differently than I usually do. We are staying very close to home, keeping things as consistent as possible and trying to head off blow-ups whenever possible. It must be a Christmas miracle, that's all I can say.

And, for a true Christmas miracle, we got an e-mail from the US Government that on their recent trip to Guatemala to work with authorities there to try and complete all grandfathered adoption cases ours was still listed as open for Peri Brynn. We were told that in the fall of 2008our case was closed by PGN, but the other Guat agency that was created to do adoptions, the CNA, is the one that is working to complete all old cases and ours is one of them. I can't even type this without crying. I was in such a good place finally accepting she was not ours and now, do I dare to hope? Can I handle one more small child with serious issues? If, by some miracle, we get to bring her home, we will find a way to handle it and never look back.