Christmas Eve Traditions in Our House....
We leave WV every Christmas Eve morning, giving hugs and kisses to those we left behind there. We get back to Cincinnati in the late afternoon, grab a bite to eat, and head to the church at around 5.
We LOVE our Christmas Eve service at Clough Pike: many of the churches in our area no longer have Christmas Eve services, so we're always blessed with "new friends," people who join us from other churches. We sing Christmas hymns, read Scripture, light candles, and Tim does a devotional.
We come home and hit the PJ's, vowing to not take them off for the next 36 hours!!! This is our traditional pose right before bedtime, infront of the stockings. We read "Twas the Night Before Christmas" and then hit the sack, listening for reindeer hooves on the roof.
The kids were a bit too excited to sleep right away (hence the 3 hour nap driving home from WV earlier that day), so we let them all pile-up in John's bed and read for a while. At around 11:00, all eyes were finally shut for the night.
