Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas season. Don't be fooled by my failure to post about it for 2 months.
Max was old enough this year to really talk more about the true meaning of Christmas. We read an advent calendar that told the Christmas story. He really enjoyed it. It prompted us to talk more about God, Jesus and mass. We also talked more about people and children without anyone. We adopted a boy his age at church and he did really well shopping for the little boy and handling not getting something too. We also did three presents this year because that is how many presents Jesus received from the wise men. That really seemed to make sense to Max and was an easy way to tie it back to Jesus.
Santa brought Max the tool bench he wanted! It's do neat! He LOVED the tool belt from Bobby too.
We cut down our own tree this year. Let me just say - NIGHTMARE!!! That tree feel down at least 4 times!! (Once in the middle of the night setting off the alarm). The tree ended up on the deck and we finished with a fake tree.
However I will say we had a fantastic time at the Christmas tree farm. That will definitely be a tradition - we'll just cut a small tree for Max's room or something.