I think my favorite part of Christmas is Christmas Eve. I love the thoughtful gifts we all exchange, and then there are the Christmas PJ’s, Harbor House, Gift displaying and our open one gift tradition. And the past two years, Micah has given me my gifts after everything is said and done on Christmas Eve. It is a marathon night, and we go to bed around 2 am, but I love every last second of it!
This year, Micah might have made it someone’s best night ever!
But before his moment came, the cousins exchanged gifts, and Dash got this awesome book that she read out loud to Dash on the book’s recorder.
Navy got a stash of similar books from Trey, and she loves them!
And Scout had to wait until the next morning to get his gift from Ka.
Then it was the adult exchange. Micah scored with some 6th row Clipper tickets were especially amazing since they are on a huge winning streak. Trilby set him up!
And then it was Micah’s turn….
He got the least wanted name….Patty Poo!
He thought it was rigged.
But as soon as he got it, he knew exactly what to do. My mom has been in the same robe for about 10 years. Not because people haven’t bought her other robes, but because she has a love affair with her purple, roast-smelling robe. She can’t part with it. But the holes and rips were telling the world that she needed to part with it. So when it went missing, at the beginning of December, she was in a panic to find it. Little did she know that Micah had stolen it to take to a seamstress to have it recreated.
(The company from New Zealand who made her original robe has been out of business for years, and there are no 100% cotton chenille robes to be had.)
We learned that they just don’t make the fabric she wanted anymore, so when Micah and I found a place out of Rancho Santa Margarita who had a bolt of vintage fabric, he was psyched! He bought tons of it, and crossed his fingers that it would be a good duplicate.
But before giving the new white robe, Micah returned her old — but newly-improved robe. He patched it up where it needed it.
My mom was totally excited to have her old faithful back. She immediately put it on and then wrapped her arms around the man who returned it.
But in the meantime, Micah slipped another box on her seat with the new robe. When my mom opened it, the entire room was cheering!
There was immediate trying on.
And a very long hug to follow.
It was a great surprise, and a perfect duplicate.
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