I know that you know what we did for Christmas Eve before I even say it.
We robbed a train.
Wait. No. That was Flag Day.
We had a piñata at my cousin's house, of course!
I ate 17 bowls of Chex mix, of course!
I spent all year thinking of trinkets to put into the piñata, of course!
And it was a most spectacular evening.
Of course.
This year, Mykey 3D printed a gaggle of fidget toys and I smartly cushioned them in bubble wrap after last year's destruction. I contributed parachute men, bouncy balls from Old Navy, and a roll of quarters. My mom contributed slap sticky hands. My cousin hassled me about the parachute men when I told him beforehand that I was buying them. He thought they would be the lame-o ones we had growing up that always tangled and never floated well.
WRONG!
These were smartly engineered parachute men from the far away land of Amazon that floated perfectly and didn't get tangled at all. The parachutes were made from actual fabric! He had to apologize to me when all the parachute men were the favorite toy of the evening. Victory was mine! (But it isn't a competition so quit being a jerk, Booney.)
The piñata was some creepy looking baby from Cocomelon. Don't know what that is, but once the baby was smashed to bits, all the kids took turns wearing its legs like a diaper. Not weird at all.
As the excitement increased, Baby was a little terrified of the noise and the whacking so Mykey had to take her to a different room and play with her there. After the smash and grab was over, we sang the 12 Days of Christmas and I read Luke 2 aloud. The kids swapped and bartered their wares, we tracked Santa, and then we shuttled ourselves home for a long winter's nap.
I can't wait to see Baby on Christmas morning.
Santa Claus is coming to town!