Christmas and Santa can fix anything

Yesterday was a fantastic day. Christmas is so much fun with kids. Oscar woke up at six and climbed in bed with us until 7, when we told him he could finally wake up his brothers.  The boys loved what Santa brought them and seeing that he had eaten their cookies and the reindeer had eaten all of their reindeer food.  They even ate the bowl of peanut butter that Oscar thought they'd like as a special treat.  I was kind of worried that some sort of gross bugs would have found the peanut butter, but we lucked out.  Santa had brought each of the boys their own snowglobe.  Max's was a giant plastic one that blew around the snow and the other two were Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh.  Max accidently dropped Bryce's which of course broke.  Oscar piped up and said, "That's ok.  We'll just send it back to Santa's workshop and he can fix it."  This made Bryce feel much better, to which he added "Santa has magic and he can fix anything!"  Under normal circumstances I would have said Santa's already come and gone this year and that he's now taking a very much needed rest and that he'd have to wait until next year.  But I didn't have the heart.  So needless to say, I got up and went to Target first thing this morning and fortunately they had two Winnie the Pooh snowglobes left.  At least now they were 50% off.  We're going to 'mail' the broken one back and the new one will show up in the mail in a few days.  Oscar got an electric guitar (without strings) that he loves from his Papa and Peepie (Scott's dad and wife)!   He keeps running around saying that he's a rock star, then strumming a few notes, before running again.  It's pretty funny.  He even went as far as to put on his rock star clothes. We were a little curious as to what those would be since he has just normal clothes.  He came back in his jeans and a shirt with a lion roaring on it.   He's got the right idea anyways.   We stole one of my friend's traditions and made our own individual homemade pizzas for dinner.  We even made our own dough.  We told the boys they could have whatever they wanted on it, so they both ate theirs with cheese, pepperoni and hotdogs  and no sauce.  It was a fun way for us all to be together in the kitchen, rather than the adults trying to cook a really nice meal that the kids don't care about anyways.  We then topped it off with Jesus' birthday cake which was a chocolate (flourless-for Bryce) cake that tasted like a mix between fudge and mousse.  Very yummy.  The only way the day could have been better was to have gotten a referral, but it will come soon enough.  Hopefully by Ethiopia's Christmas calendar.