We spent the day after Christmas in the traditional way, at home playing with all our new toys. Chris likes to walk around with the camera and document all the happiness and, most especially, peace. I love to see the kids enjoying their gifts, especially the ones they received from each other. 
For example, Alexandra is modeling the new pajama pants the Sarah sewed for and tracing the new pencil pal that Nicholas made for her.
We love to play a giant game of Catan every holiday. We combine a few of the different versions and play for a few hours. So fun! Here Sophie is figuring out her new phone, while wearing her new pajama pants from Sarah and her pajama top from Alexandra. (She chose the t-shirts, then we cut out everyone’s initial from contact paper, placed it on the shirt, and she sprayed bleach all over the place for a unique design.
Love that she loves that mop so much. I finally had to explain to her that she didn’t need to ask me if she could use it, she was free to mop whenever she wanted. (Yes, I do know how awesome that is.)
It was a joint gift, and it really did take two of them to build it. That thing is huge! My favorite part is the light up Eye of Sauron.
We also worked on more of our Christmas puzzle. The first had to be re-started a few times, as we did right on the reading room floor, and it occasionally got bumped and broken, especially when we had to cover it with the bean bag to protect it from small visitors. 
But we got it done, and decided to start a second one. I am trying to find a foldable table that we can use for next year, but the only ones I have seen are really expensive, or too large. I have hope, though.
The best part of this day was that we woke up to snow!
After a brown Christmas day, this was a happy, and beautiful, surprise.