"It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas"

After Thanksgiving, I realized there was nothing I could do to stall the holidays.  Danny and I had been so excited for the holidays for months!  This would be our first Christmas in our own home, where we didn't have to travel.  It would be our first Christmas morning with just our kids!  Then Luke got sick, and none of it seemed to matter.  But Danny and I recognized early on that even if we didn't feel any yuletide joy, we needed to put Christmas on...with all the jingle bells and whistles...for the older kids.  So, when December 1st rolled around, we decided it was time to don our gay apparel.  Well, it was time for the house to anyway. :)

Papa spent the majority of the day with Luke at the hospital, and Danny and I set most of the day aside to spend with Claire, Sophie, and Johnny.  We got the house all cleaned up and started setting up the tree!  We turned on Pandora Radio, tuned to the Holiday Jazz station I created a few years ago, and got to work. 

The kids were awesome Hand-The-Branches-To-Daddy helpers, and even helped fluff out some of the branches.  While they worked on the tree, I set up some more decorations, and realized that we have way more real estate to decorate than ever before!  Time to start building our inventory a bit more. 

The kids were very proud of their work!  And as we decorated, we talked about what they wanted for Christmas, and how excited they were for Santa to come.  It helped us as parents feel the Christmas Spirit to see our kids so excited.  And both of us realized how important it was to us to give our children an awesome Christmas.  Claire, Sophie, and Johnny have been so amazing through this whole experience.  They are so willing to give up time with us so we can be at the hospital.  They pray for their brother every day, and always look forward to their next visit.  They, more than any kids we know, deserve a visit from Santa.  

And even though it may push us to the very limits of exhaustion, we're going to have a great holiday season.  After all, we couldn't disappoint these brown-eyed beauties...