This year, we headed south for Christmas. Since our gift for the nuggets couldn’t fit in our luggage or be shipped…we decided to celebrate a touch early.
A couple nights before heading out, we unveiled a playhouse, that we’d been working on for the past several weeks. We had kept the project a surprise by covering it with a big blue tarp during the kiddos waking hours. Neither C or I have any idea how we pulled the surprise off, other than that our kids must be REALLY used to seeing tarps, tools, etc. laying around the house due to our myriad home improvement projects…neither nugget had a clue!
I can’t by any means take credit for the house, C really deserves the credit. I simply designed it with the help of ideas from pinterest and our first little neck of the wood and C implemented. I don’t think that we’ve ever poured our hearts into a project like we did with this…we’ll both admit that we were/are probably more excited about the house than the kids are as is identified by silly details like house numbers, TCU flag, door bell, flower box, valances and mailbox.
Our play kitchen that B got for his second birthday fits snuggly on the left side of the house, while C fashioned a kiddo-size tool bench for the right side of the house. The ‘second story’ is a reading nook and hopefully future sleep over spot.
Both nuggets were speechless when we let them come down stairs…then slowly they ventured in, tried out the light switch (many times) and slowly made themselves at home.
It was probably 45 minutes later that B even noticed his stocking filled and hanging by the fire place…
Little A didn’t know what to make of the commotion…
With help, she settled right in and explored the contents of her own little stocking.
After the stockings contents were dispersed (all over the place), the nuggets (and their Papa Bear) continued exploring the house…
Our early Christmas was truly a magical evening. It was such an honor to watch A & B accept the gift that C and I had worked so hard and deliberately to give them, a truly tangible reminder of the joy that God must feel when He sees His children accepting His Son as their Ultimate Gift.
More to come on our little family’s Christmas celebrations!
Merry Christmas!
Be blessed.
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