Early Christmas

Today we had Christmas for Angela and Chase. The big present for Angela was a DS and she loved it. I almost think she liked the little presents better. One of them was Shrinky Dinks......If anyone has seen these they are really neat. Its a piece of what material I have no idea, you color it then bake for 3 minutes ( love that number) at 350 degrees. It gets smaller and smaller, it bends and it looks like it is going to bake together and then it unfolds and gets smaller - its really cool to watch. Chase's gift was part of a family gift. We got the kids a Kinect for the XBOX 360, now normally I hate the demon box and anything that has to do with it. But I really like the Wii because it promotes I don't know more movement than your thumbs. So I wasn't thrilled when Steve said he was getting something for the demon, but then once he got it home and told me what it was I warmed up a little bit, but I still had reservations, just because I have hated that thing for so long, the promise of it being good in any way was hard to believe. Well today it was connected and Mia of all people played for hours, she was jumping and jumping and didn't break anything. So its nice, we have the Wii upstairs which the kids still play and I use it for Netflicks, and then downstairs is the Kinect, and thats not hooked up to the internet, I'm not too keen on the kids being able to watch Netflicks without supervision or at least some way for us to know what they are watching. Mia watches upstairs with Angela alot but she uses her laptop that Grandma got her for Christmas which by the way is really nice! She watches, but she has to ask to use the laptop since its an electronic, we don't have problems with her so she gets to use it alot, and she is always good when we tell her she has had enough TV time on it or playing games. She loves that Bejeweled game. Don't tell her but for Christmas we got her some girl games that can only be played on her computer. She has done some research for school on it and she really liked that she could do that in her room and not down here at the main system and have all the crazy noise. She is going to love it next year when her papers are going to start coming in. So completely off topic but Angela and Chase will be leaving on the 23rd to go to Texas, even though their real mom lives in Washington, her Mom has cancer and this is probably going to be her last Christmas so everyone is going to her in Texas. They are excited. We are not. As hard as it is for us, its much harder for them. They are children, divorce is never pretty.............Praise the Lord that the other three are going to be home and with us! The next couple days are always hard for us, Steve suffers in silence, while I give lots of hugs and kiss's and cry. But Christmas is about giving, about the birth of our Savior. We are sacrificing, we are giving our children time with both of their parents, knowing what we know about their mother - It is one of the hardest things I've ever had to do and I didn't bare them, I can only imagine what it does to Steve. Keep them in your thoughts this Christmas, and pray for their safe arrival, safe visit, and safe return. Their just kids............ their our kids..........