Read Between the Lines ...

 Merry belated Christmas!

 Lately, I have been waking up around 4-5 AM. Crazy, right? On Christmas Eve, I expected this to happen, and it was hard. I couldn't fall asleep, and on top of this, my brother was up with me! (Aidan, Maeve, and I all slept in Aidan's room) As the hours ticked by, we could not wait for 7. Usually around 7 Dad will come and get us to let us know that we can come out. Then, finally, he came in. After telling us to wait a few more minutes, we were at last able to come out! One by one, in a frenzy like way, we burst out of the room- somehow I always end up in the back- and went into the living room. Right under the tree were presents. Dozens of them! And in front, were our stockings! On the couches were Nana, Nanie, and Papa. Mom was at the front of the room, and Dad was by the computer, filming it all. Maeve instantly crouches by a box, and opens it. I, who was stunned and trying to decide what to go to first, picked up my stocking. I then walked over to my usual spot on the couch where I put my presents, and found that Declan was sitting there. I then sat down and began to look at what Santa had left for me in my stocking;

• 2 movies: Soul Surfer and Water for Elephants
• Winter Gobstopers
• Colorful zebra socks
• 4 mini lotion bottles: Paris and Be Enchanted

  I then sat my stuff down, and walked over to the pile of gifts. Each of my siblings had a box with them, and were getting very cool stuff. I pick up one box and open it. It was a book from my Aunt. One by one, faster and faster each time, I picked up boxes. In the end, this is what I got;

• Video Camera
• 4 books : 3 from House of Night and Cross my Heart and Hope to Spy
• Tee from Paris (I love all things French!)
• 2 Nooks
• Lots of clothes
• Boots
• purse
• laptop cover, and more!

 Each year, my Mom orders these delicious muffins from Tastefully Simple. They are coated with cinnamon and are so good when warm! On top of that, my Mom also makes Egg Strada only on Christmas day. With these two things and fruit, the meal is truly delicious. Unfortunately, days before Christmas we had not yet ordered these muffins. Thankfully, days before Christmas we had received not two- but three!- boxes of these muffins. They were truly delicious!
 The next few days were a lot of fun, unfortunatly on Monday my Nana and Papa had to leave to go home. My Nanie, who was still with us, then taught me how to sew! She gave me one of her sewing machines and that night I made two things;

1. purple purse
2. pajama bottoms for Maeve

 The next day, Nanie left to go home, too. I didn't do any sewing this day, but I did go on the Wii and play with a lot of the new toys we got on Christmas. Later on that day, Mom and I went to Barnes'n'Noble to go return one of my Nooks. While my Mom returned, I looked at Nook covers. I found a couple I really liked, but settled for one that looked like paper, but at the bottom read, Read between the lines ...
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Yesterday I, finally, got to finish my sewing. Nanie had cut me an outline of some pj's and today I was finally going to finish them! Halfway through, I realized that I sewed both legs together, and had a really big skirt. After cutting, I started again, only to see that part of the fabric for one leg was not entirely sewn. Great. In the end, I had finally sewn a somewhat good pair of pj pants.



God Bless,
Love,
279 more days,
Aislinn
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