The Cookies & Milk Are All Gone!

To have Santa come to our house on Christmas Eve or wake up and open presents at 5:00AM Christmas morning? This is what you have to figure out when there's a fireman in your house who works on Christmas Day. I should be used to this, and I suppose I am, but it's never easy to see him leave Christmas morning. The 5:00AM madness was just that....madness. So, we asked Santa to stop by our house on Christmas Eve while we were away at other family gatherings. We set out the all-important homemade cookies and milk and headed out in the snow! Yes, snow in Texas on the Eve of Christmas! When we got home, we headed straight to the table where we'd left Santa's treats.....they were gone and Landon was just amazed! Once he saw that Santa had devoured his cookies and milk, Landon turned to the fireplace to find presents galore! The look on his face and twinkle in his eye was just priceless. He had asked Santa for a train table (at the suggestion of mom & dad, of course) and there it was! The only downfall to having a big ticket item sitting there is that all the other gifts just become road blocks. He knew he had to open them before playing with that train table. He got some wonderful gifts from everyone and we're still playing them every day.