Christmas Day is the first of the 12 Days of Christmas.

I love my family, and I love spending time with them at the Monastery. There's no TV and minimal cell signal. OMG, WUT DO U DUE?!?! Well, we TALK to each other and enjoy each others' company and laugh and play cards and even... GO TO CHURCH! Sure, there are the presents, but really only the kids get presents at this point. I love watching them open gifts. The sheer joy of tearing open that paper is glorious.

I'm going to start taking my dogs with me I think. I freak out about them when I leave them alone for Jordan to watch and I can't steal his Christmas, that's not fair. Two of them are really well behaved, and by next year, Lucy should be too.

Merry Christmas!