Better late than never for a Christmas post, but here it is! Charles and I traveled to to SOWEGA, aka Albany, Georgia, the weekend before Christmas to visit my family. It was nice to relax there and spend time with Nana and Uncle Jim. We came back to the homestead for a few days and went to the Zoolight Safari - it was fun for Charles to visit and pet the animals which he is quite interested in these days!
Then Jacob, Charles and I traveled to Augusta to spend Christmas with Jacob's entire family - all 18 of them! Yes, we all fit in his parents' house, quite comfortably I might add. There was plenty of closet space to fit the pack 'n plays for all the grandkids. We filled our days with catching up with each other's lives, cooking yummy food, playing Guitar Hero and ping pong, and playing with all the grandchildren. We gave Charles a red wagon which he was not too keen of on Christmas morning, but he has grown to love it now that we're home in familiar surroundings! I think he was more interested in the books than the wagon - we think he will grow to be a mini-Jacob as far as reading is concerned!
It was a neat to start looking at Christmas in Charles' eyes - yes, we want it to be filled with Santa and presents, but more importantly, we want the true meaning of Christmas to be at the forefront of his mind. Our hope in the years to come is to instill in our children that Christmas is about Jesus and his birth - we started traditions of Advent, reading the Christmas Story and some other things that I hope Charles will understand in the the coming years. And I would love for him to be just as excited about Jesus as much as Santa and Christmas lights - such a balancing act.
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