I celebrate Christmas, so that’s what I wish you!  However, however it is you live your life, I hope you’re having a wonderful time of it today.

Our girls woke us extra early with excitement.  Good thing we blocked off the stairs with the baby gate last night, or I’m sure they would have been down there gazing at it in wonderment in the wee hours of the morning, before the sun even came up.

We awoke to our 5 year old exclaiming, “The carrots are smaller!  The reindeers took a bite!”

Ahh, the magic of Christmas as a child.

And hubman and I went overboard and made out pretty well ourselves, too.

I plan to eat whatever tickles my fancy today, but keeping in mind of the Okinawan practice (I lived in Okinawa for years!) of

“Hara Hachi Bu”

which means ‘Eat until you are 80% full’

I will leave you with a photo of my girls with Santa taken yesterday. Their facial expressions say so much about their personalities – haha!  Actually our youngest is actually very happy, bubbly and outgoing… but with strangers or anyone she’s not in the mood for other than family, she will please no one with a smile.