The stash of presents under the tree is no longer a mystery. New boots warm my feet. A new skirt brushes my legs. Nate relaxes in a new hooded sweatshirt while Harrison plays quietly with a Little People schoolbus from Santa.
To seem annoyingly perfect, it was a wonderful Christmas.
We spent time adoring Harrison. We worshiped in candlelight on Christmas Eve with our boy sitting in my lap. We baked cookies & drank wine & soaked each other in. On Christmas morning, Harrison’s face lit up in absolute awe as he toddled towards the pile of gifts Santa left by the fireplace. He carried around his new storybooks while Nate & I sat on the floor by the tree, cups of hot coffee in hand & doled out gifts to each other. The completion to my nativity. A new golf bag for him. Running tights for me. Basketball shorts for him. Earmuffs to brace against the winter chill. A new iPod alarm clock to replace his old one.
We piled into the car with duffel bags packed & drove the short trip to my parents house, where I flew into the arms of my brother. “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” has never meant so much to me, now that the boys aren’t home every year. Gifts were exchanged. Monkey bread was devoured. We giggled at Ralphie in the pink bunny costume, because it’s just not Christmas without the Red Ryder BB Gun. Naps were had by all. & in the evening at dinner time, snow began to fall.
North Carolina saw it’s first white Christmas in 60 years. I saw my first white Christmas ever.
For the next forty-eight hours, we soaked each other in as a family. Snowed 
in with 8 inches of the white stuff (don’t laugh, Yankees!), we pulled out board games & movies & books. We watched HGTV until The Momma declared she couldn’t watch one more idiot buy a house. We snacked on peanuts & M&Ms mixed together. I curled up in my father’s recliner with my new copy of Pride & Prejudice & fell in love with Mr. Darcy all over again.
It is so rare that we all simply stop what we are doing & pause. I am so thankful to the season & the snow for forcing us to take a deep breath.
Excellent. It was indeed a magical and wonderful Christmas and I agree the amazing snow fall was perfection on top. I hope your New Year brings just as much peace and contentment as Christmas did to you and your family!
Sounds like you had the most perfect Christmas! I’m so happy to read such a happy post from you. I have to admit that I’m feeling a little jealous because my hubby is gone to New Zealand for a month for an Air Force mission.
Jealous in a good way….
I am so jealous of your white Christmas! We had a brown one in the Denver, CO area. Boo. Supposedly we’ll have a white New Years but I am not holding my breath. Glad you had a perfect day! It only gets better as your kid gets older. My almost 3yo has been parading around saying “Merry Crimmas hohoho” for a week now.
It was indeed a wonderful Christmas!! We watched Ralphie as well, and even opened a gift or two that was labeled ‘frageelie’ here at our house. Santa even slipped candy canes into bed w/ our little ones, stole the camera and took pictures. Just wait for that! Have a Happy New Year!
Merry Christmas Blair! So glad you had a special day!
Gosh, that sounds divine. This was seriously your first white Christmas. God bless you, dear.
You should have seen our Christmas last year. It was a doozie.
I’m glad you had the chance to unwind.
You had more snow in NC than we did in SW Michigan … and even more than what they had in the “snowbelt” of northern Michigan (Gaylord) and even in the UP from Cedarville to Munising. I am, oddly, jealous! We had two inches here. Less than six inches pretty much everywhere else.
I shouldn’t complain. Weatherman says we’ll get ours soon enough … *gulp*!
Merry Christmas!!
Merry Christmas, BA. I, too, was snowed in under over 10 inches of that dratted powdery white fluff (even today – as our neighborhood sees little sunlight and the road was a 6in thick sheet of ice). I’m hoping to get back to the old routine. Glad y’all had a wonderful White Christmas. I know I was happy to see a white one here in NC.
Merry Christmas. We got 2 feet here in NY on Sunday-Monday. I’m finding it a little less romantic however.
I’m glad you had a wonderful Christmas, BA! I put up so many pictures on my blog of Alabama’s first white Christmas in like 30 or 40 years. It was the first one I’ve seen since I was 7. We had a good 8 or 9 inches too
How wonderful. So glad you were able to have a white Christmas. There’s nothing like the magic of it.
LOL at your Mom!
Sounds like a beautiful Christmas! You deserved it!
Happy New Year!
Amen sista. Your blog over the past few weeks has brought a tear to my eye forcing me to reflect on the simple joys the holidays bring when spending time with the loves of my life.
Sounds like you had a wonderful Christmas!!! But I do have to ad where oh where did you get those boots. I think I need them!!
It sounds perfect and wonderful. Just what you needed. xoxo
Having a white Christmas makes it that much more annoyingly perfect doesn’t it
Last year it rained!
This was actually our first white Christmas in a wile too. I know, I live in Canada it’s winter all year round
Glad you all stopped and enjoyed it.
It sounds like heaven!
I love your writing, you’re adorable. And YEAH for your FIRST WHITE CHRISTMAS!! It’s amazing, huh?! Blessings to you!
i’m so jealous of your perfect, relaxing Christmas! i would kill for just one of those! Merry Christmas!
Beautiful. Merry Christmas Blair! I started reading you one year ago and still loving your posts
p.s. So that’s where my Christmas snow was this year. lol
hooray for your first white christmas! they are magical, aren’t they. we had a brown and white patchy christmas. but we get more than our fair share, so I am not complaining!
Monkey bread is totally one of our family traditions. Every Christmas, after the presents are opened, we cut up biscuits, pour on the butter and brown sugar and make hot cocoa. Yummm…sounds like a lovely day!
how exciting that you enjoyed your very first white christmas! so happy to hear that you had a wonderful holiday!
wasn’t that NC snow just perfect? and Christmas with brothers…now that I get perfectly…except our movie involves Cousin Eddie
sounds like a wonderful christmas! xo
So glad that Christmas was perfection. You deserve it!
You are such an amazing writer. Your words are so vivid, I feel like I’m there! Thank you for sharing!