All I Want For Christmas...

My daughter is now the toothless wonder.   She lost her first top tooth right before Thanksgiving.   Last night she woke up at FOUR A.M!   She wiggled it with her tongue and when she closed her mouth it was not there.   She found it inside her cheek.   Of course, she woke my husband and I up to tell us.  She wasn't able to go back to sleep until 6:00.   She is so excited to loose both front teeth before Christmas.   She has been dying to sing, "All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth."   She sang it for us today several times.   Tonight is an exciting night she gets a visit from the Tooth Fairy and Santa.   Do you think they will carpool?  

Truly, my husband and I are those crazy families that don't do Santa.   The gifts come from Mama and Daddy.   We try to keep the focus on Jesus.   We give our kids three gifts, it was good enough for Jesus, good enough for us.   Honestly, our families enjoy gift giving, so our kids want for nothing.  My daughter also knows we are the tooth fairy, but she wants the money.   She is always saving for something she wants.  Pretending there is a tooth fairy another way to raise capital.  After her bottom teeth fell out, she asked for the tooth back six months later to look at it.  I grinned and told her the tooth fairy took it.   That elicited quite a look!

On this Christmas Eve the kids are in bed snoozing.   We enjoyed a beautiful Christmas Eve service earlier this afternoon.   We had dinner, made sugar cookies, had a bonfire, put on Christmas jammies and went to bed.   Of course before bed we had to have a picture of the cousins.

I love the Christmas story.   I will leave you with my favorite part.  This is the NIV version from www.biblegateway.com

And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. ⁹ An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. ¹⁰ But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. ¹¹ Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. ¹² This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”
¹³ Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,
¹⁴ “Glory to God in the highest heaven,
and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.”
¹⁵ When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.”
¹⁶ So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. ¹⁷ When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, ¹⁸ and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them. ¹⁹ But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. ²⁰ The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.