Day 2 of 365 days of being thankful (RATS!!!!!!!!!)

  I guess I should finish my blog about Christmas Day. I am thankful for the gift of laughter!! In our family, we play games as we open presents.  This year, I purchased 6 red and green star balloons.  I taped messages to the balloons. The balloons had to be hit with rubber bands and if hit successfully, the shooter got to read a message. The messages said things such as all girls open presents, or everyone opens a present, etc.  My son-in-law Adam had fun shooting rubber bands at his wife, my daughter Renee. I also am known for wrapping rats.  I love to see everyone's face when they open a gift and find a rat inside! I use to have a bag of rubber rats and mice.  Unbeknownst to me, my daughters threw away my rats last year! I was not to be thwarted so I purchased cardboard rats and printed out pictures of rats from the internet. Everyone got to open several boxes of rats!  My son-in-law Adam kept saying,"I hope this box has the rat of my dreams!"  With each lightweight box, the question was.........is it a rat or is it cash???  I put some of the dollar bills and some of the rats in empty food boxes.  Olivia thought all of the empty food boxes had rats in them.  She threw a vanilla wafer box right in the trash. I asked Renee if she wanted to open the box. There was cash inside of it. Renee gave the cash to Olivia.
 The rats are my favorite part of Christmas gifts!!
Too many gifts but many of them contained rats!
Renee loved her new purse

Christmas Breakfast







Olivia


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