Christmas Adam 2015

Christmas Adam is a colloquialism for the day before Christmas Eve or December 23rd. It is a rather new term. An online slang dictionary created a listing for it only nine years ago.

Christmas Adam last year was a big hit so we continued the tradition this year.  A present, fondue dinner, Christmas movie, and sleeping around the Christmas tree.

This year was haphazardly thrown together.  My busy season was intensely busy this year.  I had 46 photo commitments in three months (Oct – Dec) so I was really scrambling to keep up in life during this time.  We’d had lots going on during the day and then yard people were at our house all afternoon/evening.  They could see into our front room while we were eating our main dinner (didn’t take any pictures) so we moved to the kitchen for privacy for dessert.  I was finally able to slow down at this point and enjoy the sweet treat.

The movie we choose was Home Alone.  Wow, did it stir up some questions and concerns!  Being home alone and left behind?  Terrifying to our kids.  Bad men breaking into the house?  “Are bad men real mommy?”  They were super scared to learn that bad men were real.  McKay said, “It’s okay Sadie.  There’s none in Florida!”  The pet tarantula, spooky old man, after shave…we were stopping to explain something and assuage a concern every 4 minutes.  I think it was a thrilling hit and the boys have been setting traps for bad men around our house ever since.

Oh, and in an effort to replicate the sled on the stairs scene the boys slid down Ethan stairs on a homemade sled (aka box lid for Jax and the whole box for McKay) and McKay nearly knocked out another tooth.  He, in fact, did knock it backwards and it’s still wiggly but the dentist thinks it will reattach.

Kids….wow.  I mean, WOW!

So, a busy but memorable day 🙂