not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
The stockings were laying by the gifts on the floor.
It was evident that St. Nick had been here and had done his chore!
The children were still nestled all snug in their beds,
Because we'd been out late the night before with friends.
As the sun was rising that morn, I looked out the window and was filled with delight
to see a beautiful blanket of white covering everything in sight. 
Shortly after that, my listening ears heard a noise about quarter to eight,
and Josh and I went to the boys' rooms and told them to "wait"!
For in the other room, the youngest child was still asleep--on his bed he did lay,
We tried to awake him, but he did not want to (much to our dismay).
So we told the 3 older boys "okay, you can go", and away they all flew,
they ran in their pajamas to the living room to see what was new.
Their shouts of excitement were so lively and quick! I heard things like:
"Yes! an mp3 player", "I got legos!", and "Just what I wanted--a bike!".
Kanyon was awakened by all the noise, and came out to see what Santa had brought:
He was so happy with all the Thomas the Train gifts he got! 
When they looked inside their stockings, the boys each discovered
toys, bath soap, and plenty of candy canes and chocolate to devour! 
In Josh's stocking, he received cologne, lottery tickets to scratch, and Reeses & Kit-Kats.
In mine, I found socks, my favorite kinds of chocolates, and more lottery tickets!
After all of St. Nick's gifts were revealed (including a treadmill for me), I called everyone to breakfast in the kitchen,
"Now Ammon, now Jonah, now Micah, and Kanyon--come and eat up, the bacon, hashbrowns, & eggnog are waitin'!"
To the kitchen they came and ate up with some zest,
because they wanted to start the gift-opening fest!!
And then, in a twinkling, the unwrapping of the presents got under way,
we all took turns, and the boys hoped it would last all day!
For over an hour, we watched with glee,
as everyone opened gift after gift happily.
My favorite gift to give this year was hand-made blankets for each boy's bed.
And as each boy opened them up, the blankets stretched from their feet to their head!
When the gifts were all open, a bundle of toys were strung throughout the room in an upheavel:
Books, puzzles, lincoln logs, legos, trucks, chairs, blankets, clothes, wii games, and a shovel!
And I know I exclaimed, before the day's end, that this Christmas was "the BEST"!!
I'm happy to announce that our FIRST stay-at-home Christmas was truly a success!!!
1 comment:
its interesting to me that all family do the santa thing differently. i see that santa leaves all of your kids presents in individual piles and that nothing is wrapped. at our house, the presents are in individual piles too, but wrapped. i know at some peoples houses, santa leaves the presents under the tree and i've heard of other houses that he takes everything out of the boxes, etc so that they are all ready to be played with immediately. anyway, looks like you had a fun 1st christmas in your new house!!
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