Wouldn't It Be Lovely?

We got some more Christmas gifts today, these from Aunt Rebecca, who was kind enough to send this bracelet here, and the gifts you see below as well.

She had some decorations she got in Wales, and also a special ornament that she sent for Nana, which you can see here was greatly appreciated.

We hung that on the tree right away, a Welsh doll that was super nice.  Nana has received several nice gifts the last few days, and they've all been very thoughtful.  This one will go on our tree for years to come, I'm sure.

Mommy got something nice too, and this is a super crazy wild coincidence.  I think.  Anyway, here's the picture below of what she got - what she's wearing.

The wrap is really nice, and in the box there was a Celtic pin to hold it all together.  I literally ordered that the other day, wrapped it, and then... I lost it.  And yet Zena found two of these same pins inside the gift box along with her wrap.  I have to check with my parents to see if they got something by mistake, but in the end, Mom got her pins and she was quite happy.

Oh, and you can see what I got here.  It's a Millennium Falcon gingerbread creation!  We decided to wait until Star Wars Day before we put this one together.  That will be super fun!

Here's something Madison and Mom were doing today - they finished late tonight, actually.  They were working on this puzzle from the library.  You can check out puzzles from their collection, somewhat like you can a book.  We started focusing on this one only two days ago, and already, we got it done.  Time to return to the library for a new one!

We watched a few old movies today, mainly for distractions and so forth.  We didn't go too far today, just for a little walk down to the pool is all we did.  The weather was warming up somewhat outside, though still cool of course.

The decorations will be up for another week or so, because this is Christmas week really.  It's still nice to sit with the tree there, a log burning in the fireplace, and some pleasant seasonal music playing in the background.

I mentioned movies - tonight we had two of them again.  First was "Bringing Up Baby," which was a hilarious old movie with Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn.  It was really fun.  Madison was talking with friends in her room, catching up.  But then we all sat down together to watch one that she'd never seen before, "My Fair Lady."  You can imagine the singing that was going on afterwards, with Nana and all of us blurting out, "Wouldn't It Be Lovely?"  And Madison was doing her best cockney accent.  Go'on!

We read another chapter tonight from "The Magician's Nephew," but I didn't have much in me to get to the end - that will be tomorrow.  I'm not doing so well right now.  To that end, we prayed, and we were asleep pretty quick.  It was a nice day today!