Our Christmas Day on December 28th

Back when Brandon and I were dating he wanted to make sure I could handle being married to a pilot. The way scheduling works in the aviation industry is that the lowest seniority pilots get the last pick for when they work. That means that as a pilot he would probably be working Christmas Day for several years. I told him that was fine with me since Christmas Day is usually pretty boring after the first hour anyway.

Well Brandon isn't a pilot yet, but he is working in the aviation industry right now and he was scheduled to work on Christmas Day. We figured that since Brandon helped families be together on Christmas Santa would let us have Christmas on another day. Santa made his appearance at our house on Tuesday December 28th.

Even though it wasn't the "right" day it still felt like Christmas. We had a great time opening presents. My favorite gift this year was the 4th book in the Anne of Green Gables Series, Anne of Windy Poplars. Brandon buys me a Anne book every year. Brandon says this was the only paperback Anne left at Borders when he went Christmas Shopping. He was so happy that it was the exact one he needed. Santa must have been looking out for Brandon.

I mostly gave Brandon tools. They are always a guaranteed pleaser. Plus he uses them to make things for me. This year he made me a shelf out of an old desk that someone was giving away.

We gave the girls baby back pack carriers so they can get out of the house with us on walks. I'm looking forward to the next nice weather day.
After we opened presents we made a huge breakfast. This has been our tradition for several years. It's our way to make Christmas Day last longer.
We had Egg McMuffin type sandwiches with bacon. We also had sausage, hash browns, orange rolls, and cranberry juice. All that food combined with candy made me sick the rest of the day. But it was so worth it!
We spent the rest of the day watching movies and reading Indian in the Cupboard. It was such a nice Christmas.