I can honestly say I loved every minute. Well, except those minutes when I thought my head might explode, literally, after a trip to NYC to American Girl Cafe... so fun! For Kerri's birthday. The trip up was interesting when we got on Amtrak with NJ transit tickets! The conductor let us stay. Walking around was fun, minus the whine. And Kerri loved picking out her doll. Lunch was delicious. Although, at that point anything would have been delicious, we were so hungry. The ride back the train broke down on the trucks, underground, in the tunnel. You see, I worry about running out of air a lot on public transportation, not sure why, just do. A man started yelling about trains hitting us from behind and bombs and such, we're all thinking it dude, just know to keep it to ourselves! I had to give him a few pieces of my mind.
We eventually, after a lot of chaos and riding between train cars, made it home. My head felt ready to explode, but it is a great, and funny, memory.
We had lots of fun with Arlington cousins. Fun gift exchange. I feel like girls are getting less "jink" which helps my piece of mind. We trained (surprised girls would get back on a train) into Philly for light shows and lunch at Reading Street terminal. Had a fun Christmas Eve Eve at the Gallaghers. Got home after midnight, which made the girls year.
Christmas Eve we continued the tradition of meeting with the Smiths. We went to their house for lunch then to church. A quiet night home with girls in bed by 7:30 (their own doing... thank you Santa tracker). Christmas morning was great. Maura got the hamster she wanted, Maggie got horizontal bars. Bridget asked what her "big surprise gift" was so we said a trip to Florida.. that worked. Kerri got a leap pad she loves. Lots of presents from Santa too. Visits from all the grandparents happened that day. How cool is that? And how lucky are these girls to have all their grandparents!?!?
We saw Frozen the next day, visited daddy at work, did a big clean up of basement...getting rid of "baby" toys. This I am not sad about.
Ryan and Chris came over on Saturday with my parents for a visit. Fun catching up with them. Maggie already spent her Justice gift card plus some!
Looking forward to NYE at the SMiths tomorrow. Sure am not ready for early monring wake up calls any time soon!
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