Today was a great day that started last night, at least! John Michael was more excited about Christmas this year than we remember from the past, and he was pretty excited in the past. After preparing cookies, Horizon milk and a letter for Santa, he went upstairs but was so excited he was unable to fall asleep until quite late, for him. Of course, he compensated for that by waking at 3:45 AM, even though he had been warned by kc that there would be no presents opening until 7:00AM! Oh, well, we lasted until about 6:30 before tearing in.

Mary Pat joined in via FaceTime. We wish she, Kevin and “the cousins”, and everyone else could have been together.

kc had received an early present of a Total Gym, which she is using to rebuild her body. John Michael had received an early present of a Traxxas Slash RC car in order to play with it while Billy and Katie were here at Thanksgiving. I, also, got a PowerBeats Pro headset early, just because I wanted it!

Santa brought John Michael the Ford Raptor body he wanted for his Slash. He also received a super-cool M&M dispenser with green and red M&M’s from Francie. I’m not optimistic they will last to the end of the day. His grandma bought him a Lego Ferrari F-40 kit. He got a set of hot wheels cars from his mom’s masseuse, Marco. From me, he got a sealed transmission cover (Billy will understand the need for that) and a set of springs of different rates for this Slash.

kc was super-stoked that John Michael bought her a Traxxas Rascal RC car (and battery) for Christmas!

We all got a big Rand-McNally road atlas for our future road trips. If we can stay out of hospitals we can even find Oklahoma!

We do miss you all, but are comforted by knowing that there is a little boy in Tennessee who is smiling right now!