Our Family Christmas

We decided to do something a little different this year. We only bought one gift for our whole family, which was a Wii. We bought it a week or so before Christmas. We decided it was meant to be after a series of weird circumstances.

We were going to by one for Maison last year for his birthday, but ever since the Wii came out, we haven't been able to come across one anywhere! I have never seen one in the store before. Needless to say, Maison didn't get it for his birthday. However, while we were in North Dakota, I was shopping at the Wal-Mart there when on the loud speaker I heard..."Attention shoppers, we just received a large shipment of Wiis. Anyone interested should make their way back to electronics." I called Jason, but we decided to pass just because we didn't want to spend money we didn't have. We kicked ourselves afterwards because we decided the Wii would be a more practical gift than anything we had seen in the store!

So there Libby and I are grocery shopping one Friday afternoon when I made a pit stop in the electronic department just to see if they had a Wii. Low and behold, there one was! I couldn't believe it! I called Jason immediately and we decided to get it. As I am flagging an employee down, a man came down the isle looking for a Wii I assumed. I couldn't help myself and loudly stated..."I called it!" Lucky for me, he found my enthusiasm funny! I bought the Wii and accessories right in front of Libby and she didn't even notice! She was busy playing Mario Cart.

That night the kids had a sleepover at Grama Shari and Papa Ed's, so Jason and I decided to get the whole thing set up. We even played a game of golf. We unplugged the counsel and put it in the game closet. Hoping that the obvious would be less obvious. Seems like the sneaker we try to be, the faster the kids catch on.

We wrapped the empty boxes and decided to make clues for the kids to find their present. The clues were adapted from the story "The Night Before Christmas". We thought it was clever, but the kids seemed to tire of the clues rather quickly. When they finally opened their gift, the reaction was not what we thought it was going to be. They wanted to play right a way, but Libby asked where the rest of the presents were. I told her that was it and she says with both hands on her hips..."You know, kids like lots of presents for Christmas."

We assumed it was a bigger hit than we thought primarily because they wouldn't let Jason and I play, so we got up early the next morning and played 9 holes of golf. Jason was 11 over and I was only 26 over. Is there such a thing called a septuple bogey? There should be!