Post Holiday Meltdown Time

Well, Christmas is finally over for us. We had our last Christmas get-together last night and we are full swing into the meltdown mode now. The girls have been sooo absolutely horrid for the past few days. (Not totally their fault- staying up late with no naps is mostly to blame.) The weather has been terrible with torrential rainfall and having to go out in that to all kinds of places. But, we had a very nice Christmas. Annelise loves the Real Loving Baby she got and she has been mothering it for days now. Emmaline loved her see-saw and her pet shop and she is also obsessed with a set of Widgets she got from my parents. We did have some excitement Christmas Eve with her. We put them to bed at about 8:45 and told them they had to go to sleep for Santa to come. Well, at about 10 p.m. we figured we were safe and we started to drag out stuff and putting stuff together. We started with Emmaline's things and we drug out the see saw and put it in the den and started assembling the Littlest Pet Shop. Well, all of a sudden, I saw something out of the corner of my eye and it was Emmaline! She just stood there and I yelled at Brian to take her upstairs. I went to listen outside of Annelise's room to see what she was saying and she was telling Annelise "I really did see all of my stuff, it's all down there!" Well, I paced the hall and thought of what in the world I was going to tell her. I finally told her that Santa had to drop off her see-saw early because it was big and he would not fit all the other toys into the sleigh with it in there. I also told her that I told him to go ahead and drop off her Pet Shop and I would put it together for him since it had so many parts. I told her he was very disappointed in her for getting out of bed and being disobedient. She took it, thank goodness. Annelise was just worried that he would come take it back and not leave her toys because Emmaline was disobedient. So, when they woke up Christmas morning they were both very pleasantly surprised that Santa had been so gracious to leave Emmaline's things and also bring Annelise's to them. Crisis averted. They met a man at one of Aunt Libby's bluegrass get-togethers last week who told them he was Santa Claus. (He had the beard and everything.) Well, that poor man didn't know who he was telling that to, because Annelise and Emmaline started giving him the 3rd degree and trying to make him prove it. "How do you make the reindeer fly?" "Why aren't you at the North Pole?" etc., etc.. Aunt Libby said he got very nervous and finally told the girls he had to go outside and make a phone call to get away from the interrogation. Hah. They take after their mommy for sure. We took them to see the movie "Enchanted" the other day and it was sooo good. It was hilarious. Brian even liked it. So, for anyone who has not seen it, you will enjoy it as much as the kids! I have already started Christmas shopping for next year. We went to Commerce to the outlets on the 27th and we got a few things. I am going to go ahead and wrap them since the paper is out and get them recorded in the computer and put them away! I hope that next year we may be in our new house for Christmas. We will see! Well, I have to go make a mac and cheese to take to Chris and Megan's tonight for the bowl game. I really hope Clemson can end the year on a good note!!