Christmas

We celebrated Christmas a little differently this year, but tried to keep the family aspect the same.  Julia, my au pair Maria and I all tested postive on Wednesday, December 22nd.  I had actually gone to urgent care to get an inhaler as I thought I was getting a chest cold.  They called me from inside the urgent care center and told me I had covid and to leave without checking out.  It was surreal as it didn't even cross my mind that I had covid.  I was shocked when they told me I did and had to retrace my steps to see who I had exposed.  Luckily, my au pair Maria, Julia and I were the only ones to get it.  Even though all the other people were exposed, no one else got it.  

We decided to decorate Christmas cookies for Santa and his reindeer.  The boys had fun baking the cookies, decorating them and adding a note for Santa.  We also left out reindeer food for them as well as carrots to feed them.  They loved all of it.  

Christmas

Santa visited the Braham house on Christmas Eve and filled the boys red bags with toys.  They got a lot of toys from Santa, Mommy and Daddy, Oma, Julia, Ethan and Mimi and Papa.  Here are some of the things they got:  a new keyboard piano, science kits (from Santa, Mommy & Daddy and Aunt Jo Ann and Uncle Dominic), puzzles, drones, gravitrax, rockets, clothes, pajamas, nintendo switch games, accessories, beyblades, beyblad launchers and two arenas, crystal making kits, games, soccer nets, Magformers, remote controlled dinosaurs (one breathes fire/steam), soccer balls, sport launcher for tennis and baseball and more.  Mommy got some beautiful David Yurman jewelry from Daddy and Oma, Oma got a pretty bracelet from us as well as a tea kettle, Ninja Foodi, more jewelry, spa stuff and travel stuff, Daddy got some cool jewelry from John Varvatos, Marina got boots, a new coat, pajamas, robe, special tablet she wanted, jewelry, spa stuff, travel stuff and comfy socks.  Sophie got new balls, treats, bones and toys.  She had fun playing with her new stuff.  We had a very chill day playing with our new toys and relaxing.  We made a big breakfast, ate snacks all day and ended up ordering food for dinner.  We had a great Christmas this year and feel so blessed even though the world is so crazy.  We hope next year will bring us more normalcy and lots of fun times with family with no restrictions.