Last night we camped out under the Christmas tree, which, now that the kids are older, mostly means that we watch Christmas movies until late into the night, until they're tired enough that they go to their beds to sleep. All except for Zane, who actually DID fall asleep on the floor and slept there all night.
This night is one of our family's favorite traditions, and I usually try to introduce at least one movie that the kids haven't seen on this night. So last night we watched The Polar Express, Frosty the Snowman, and The Grinch (the original), which they've all seen many times before. And then we watched Love Actually - Because i love this movie and really wanted to watch it with the kids, I edited out the two really inappropriate story lines completely and the bedroom scene in one of the other story lines, and the end result was a ... mostly age-appropriately appropriate movie - and Snow Globe Christmas (an absolutely ridiculous Hallmark-channel-type movie). Zane fell asleep during Love Actually. Houston went to bed half an hour into Snow Globe Christmas, and i fell asleep within 20 minutes of his leaving. Juanito and Katrina both made it to the end, though.
Tonight we went to a live nativity at a church we've never been to, and it was fun. They did the whole "walk through Bethlehem and buy something with this coin we give you," and then we went outside to have a guided tour through the Christmas story from Isaiah through to the cross. It was really cold, but otherwise was well done and sometimes amusing, and we all enjoyed it.
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