Christmas Eve

Happy Christmas Eve! For the second year, all December we kept count of the ways we lit the world and had that many candles light our Christmas Eve dinner: this year I stopped counting at 100- guess we'll never know exactly how many we really had!

Jason made a yummy traditional Danish dinner of meatballs, potatoes, and red cabbage with a rice pudding for dessert.

We acted out the nativity, a favorite family tradition. This year we took several short videos instead of one long one so that people could be in more than one scene. We had a lot of sheep, for example!!

After watching George C Scott's A Christmas Carol (another tradition), Jake tried (and mostly failed, poor guy) to go to sleep, and the older kids were banished upstairs at 10pm so Santa could come. That was WAAAY too early for them to consider going to bed, so they got special permission to watch Jim Carrey's The Grinch in Ali's room.

Santa came and much fun was had on Christmas morning, but as usual, I didn't take any pictures- I was busy enjoying my family!