We’ve been hosting a Christmas Party on New Year’s Day for – I think this is our 7th year. We picked some of our favorite things and packed them into the party: Christmas carols, appetizers, desserts (including the chocolate fountain), and friends. It’s a lot of fun, if we do say so ourselves.
The kids are always enthralled with the chocolate fountain. “You mean we can coat anything with chocolate?!?” It seems too good to be true. And it is, since we wouldn’t let them coat their sandwiches, their drinks, or themselves in chocolate.
Simeon felt the pull of the chocolate fountain this year – how does it work? How does that stuff come pouring forth from it? What will happen if I put my hand into it? How do I convince Mom and Dad to leave the room for just five minutes so I can find out the answers to all of my questions?
Hannah and Naomi spent most of their time upstairs, playing with the other kids in attendance. A couple or three years ago we discovered the wisdom of hiring sitters for the party. The kids play all kinds of very fun and exciting games and end up completely exhausted by the time the party’s over, and our carols are punctuated by the pitter patter (or loud thudding, let’s be honest) of little feet as well as the screams of laughter of the owners of said feet. Everyone is happy with this arrangement, since in years before the sitters, the children would usually decide that 3 carols are enough and now’s the time for coating ourselves in chocolate and then wiping it off on the nearest piece of cloth, whatever that cloth might be.
So now we’ve made it through the party and the party cleanup. The kids are asleep and we’re about to head for bed. We’ve seen lots of good friends and celebrated Christmas. It’s a good way to begin the new year.
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