Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve was so peaceful and quiet. Stars were shinning in the sky. After a long day excitment, my kids finally went to bed and fell into sound sleep. I wondered if they were dreaming about Santa bringing them gifts.

I quietly took the Christams gifts to the living room and started to wrap them. My thoughts drifted away. My kids have grown up so fast. It seemed that it was yesterday that they were still babies. I held them in my arms, rocked them to sleep and sang them lullibies. My kids have brought me the joy of motherhood.My husband has given me the happiness of being a wife. I am so blessed with such a happy family. Anthony Brandt once said: "We start and end with the family." I remembered another interesting interpretation for family. The word family equals "F(ather), M(other), I,L(ove), Y(ou)."

After I wrapped up the gifts, I started to put the small gifts in each kid's Christmas stocking, the bigger ones under the Christams tree. I am glad that my little ones still believe in Santa. They wrote their wish lists to Santa and baked Gingerbread cookies for Santa, too. I found a note besides the cookies. It was my daughter Beibei who wrote to Santa.

Dear Santa,

Please eat the cookies and prove Dongdong wrong!

Love,

Beibei

There was a "P.S" on the back of the note, it read:

P.S. He said you do not eat them.

While I was reading the note, I could not help laughing. I ate one of the cookies and put the rest away. Oh, my kids are so adorable. I love them so much. It is going to be a gorgeous Christams. I wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Rebecca Lin 2010 Winter In USA