Happy Holidays from EE & Family (is story time this crazy at your house, too?)

Posted on December 23, 2011 by elizabeth

Somehow, this year’s family Christmas card kept getting postponed on the to-do list. I was too busy sitting around in my Distraught Pants making Christmas snow villages in fishbowls. I know, I know. PRIORITIES! Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

Anyway, yesterday I tried to share one of our favorite holiday traditions with you: reading aloud and telling stories in funny, character voices. So the kids gathered ’round and we made this video to demonstrate the blessed, quiet, ORDERLY perfection (ba ha ha) of our family story-time. Aaaaaand it turned out like this.

p.s. won’t you wish our family Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holidays from where you are? We always like reading the greetings of readers far and near! Leave your name and state/country in the comment box!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, peeps!

 

 

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  • Kalyn

    Merry Christmas from Kansas!

  • http://twitter.com/JesabesBlog Jessica

    You have a wonderful cockney accent!

    Merry Christmas from Iowa!

  • Mark S.

    Thank you for sharing your wonderful video. May you and your family experience anew the rich Blessings Jesus gives us as we celebrate His birthday and may your 2012 glow in the joy of His continued life within us all.

  • http://www.davidozab.com/ David Ozab

    Makes me happy I have only one and sad that I don’t have more at the same time. I feel the same way when I help out at Anna’s Kindergarten.

    Merry Christmas!

  • Deacon Dean

    Lovely!  Merry Christmas from New Orleans!

  • Rachel

    Merry Christmas from Florida!

  • http://twitter.com/frogla HMF

    Merry Christmas from crazy Fort Worth, TX & awesome video! xoxo

  • Sarah H

    Merry Christmas from lovely Lancashire.

  • http://www.4andcounting.blogspot.com nicole_asmanyasgiven

    Looks very much like story time at our house. Especially the arguing/whining over who sits where. But we keep trying anyway. Merry Christmas from North Texas!

  • sarah

    Merry Christmas to you from Chicago!  We are in the midst of lighting Hanukkah candles and can’t wait to celebrate Christmas this weekend.  Then staying out really late for New Year’s Eve.  Hooray for holidays!

  • cara

    Merry Christmas from the suburbs of Washington, D.C.!

  • Susan

    Merry, merry Christmas from Ocala, Florida where the sun is shining brightly, and it is warm outside.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=656915829 Michael Mullady

    From Atlanta- Merry Christmas!!  Loved your video!  Have a wonderful time with the family and we’ll see you all in 2012!  God Bless!

  • http://www.ayoungmomsmusings.blogspot.com/ Melissa @ Permission to Live

    Merry Christmas from Canada where we are having lots of good food and staying indoors!

  • http://remnantofremnant.blogspot.com/ priest’s wife

    A VERY BLESSED Christmas from California and Romania!

  • RLBouchard

    Merry Christmas from Colchester, Connecticut!!

  • http://somewiseguy.com ThatGuyKC

    Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the Procter’s in Seattle, WA.

  • http://jofenton.wordpress.com/ Johanna Fenton

    Merry Christmas, EE & Family! I loved the shouting and squealing and arms and legs and dogs and …

  • Megan Dial

    Happy Holidays from southwestern Ohio! (I’d say “Merry Christmas” but what about the feasts of St. Stephen and St. John the Evangelist and the Holy Innocents and the Holy Family and Mary the Mother of God and…[catches breath]. See? Lots of holi-days. :) )

  • Megan Dial

    (I am irritated that “signing in with Google” gave my real name and not my blog name. Oh well. Now I know not to trust Disqus.)

  • Anonymous

    Merry Christmas and much love from Southern Indiana.  :)   I recognize that happy chaos, and we would fit right in.  :)

  • http://www.athankfullheart.blogspot.com Miranda

    Have a very blessed Christmas!

    From Miranda in (awesome) Canada ;) .

  • Gilbert

    Merry Christmas from Germany!

  • justamom

    Elizabeth, I always enjoy your blog — so many of your posts resonate with me.  Enjoyed the Frances reading :-) .  We always have loved the Frances books — particularly the one with the tea set and little Thelma (haven’t we all had a Thelma in our lives?). 

    Anyway, thanks for the video.

  • justamom

    Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Plano, TX!

  • https://creativecommons.net/prosario2000/identity Pedro M. Rosario Barbosa

    Have a great Christmas, dear Elizabeth.  God bless you and your family always.

  • https://creativecommons.net/prosario2000/identity Pedro M. Rosario Barbosa

    By the way… looking at the video I thought:  ”I want to wish her to survive Christmas day too!”

  • Christiana

    THIS is awesome, totally reminds me of our house growing up. I am one of five kids as well! (And your kids are so sweet with their happy holidays! You should be very proud.)

    Merry Christmas from Vancouver, Canada!

  • Alexandra Tarling

    Happy Christmas to you and yours from Alex across the sea in Southampton, UK.

  • http://www.faithpermeatinglife.com Jessica @ FaithPermeatingLife

    Love this! :) Merry Christmas from Chicago!

  • Handsfull

    Merry Christmas from New Zealand!  It’s sunny and warm here – we’re hoping it’ll be hot enough on Christmas Day for the kids to try out the new waterslide on the back lawn :)

  • Nancy

    Merry Christmas to all from the frozen tundra in Wisconsin, home of Edna Ferber, Harry Houdini, the Packers, Greta VanSusteren, Joseph McCarthy, and us!

  • Adele

    Merry Christmas Elizabeth and family! Love from Adele in hot and sunny Perth, Western Australia xoxo

  • http://faithandfood.morizot.net/ Scott Morizot

    Merry Christmas from Pflugerville, TX!

  • KatR

    A Happy Winter Solstice Kwanzaa Chanukah Christmas from Nashville, TN. :)

  • http://twitter.com/smacdo03 Sarah in Ottawa

    Merry Christmas from Ottawa, Ontario, where it snowed today. Hooray! We’re going to have a white Christmas after all.

  • Jillrosalie

    Merry Christmas from a small northern town, Alberta, Canada

  • Deb McGuire

    Merry Christmas from Boys Town, Nebraska! 

  • Estelle

    Merry Christmas with love from Estelle in Cape Town, South Africa.

  • Wendywander

    Merry Christmas from the Oregon coast!

  • Carmen

    Love from Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. I think you are all great! :)

  • http://www.gatebeautiful.ca bekka

    Merry Christmas from all the way up here in the north-east of the Canadian province of British Columbia!  Blessings from our family to yours.

  • Guest

    From our crazy house to yours… treasure the moments, they are fleeting. -Madison, Wisconsin

  • Joy

    Christmas is quiet at my house BUT I loved your video! Thanks for posting. I’m going to spend Christmas with a friend who has a small farm (chickens and 4  cows). Greetings from West Chicago, Illinois.

  • Sabahmom

    Oh, Merry Christmas too! I LOVED reading that story to my kids when they were little! Still love Francis :-) I am in SoCal but we lived in Malaysia for many, many years til just 1 1/2 years ago – so if you want to count this greeting as coming from there to make our location seem more exotic, please feel free to do so! Love to you.

  • Laura

    Merry Christmas from Long Island!

  • http://www.coffeestainedclarity.com Bethany Bassett

    Merry Christmas from Italy! I hope there are plenty more stories to keep your Christmas warm. :)

  • Nancy

    Merry Christmas from Singapore.

  • Carole M

    My sister and I were recently lamenting the fact that there is no background noise accompanying  the motherhood/family/parenting blogs that we read.   This is so great because it is totally what my house sounds like!  Thanks for sharing.  

    - and we are from Upstate NY

  • Pamela

    It looks like a lot of fun!  I wish I had a little Christmas chaos in my perimeter; I am alone tonite. Merry Christmas, EE & family!!  -Pamela in Aurora Illinois. 

  • Liza R

    Love your honesty and humor! Merry Christmas from Tennessee!

  • Carly

    Merry Christmas and best wishes for a blessed New Year, from  Ottawa, Ontario (Canada)!