We woke up Christmas
Morning and headed over to my MIL's house to spend the day with her
and my BIL's family.
My BIL smoked a pork butt
and we had a good old fashioned BBQ dinner. Which was delicious.
Everyone opened their
presents and after we ate my MIL made an announcement.
She's got a GIANT piggy
bank that she has been putting her change in for 19 years and she
decided it was time to empty the bank.
She called the grandkids
to the dining room table and told them that anyone who sat and
counted it could have it.
The Youngest Island Boy
had to work so he wasn't there and his brother and sister both agreed
to count his share for him.
My niece, KW, also jumped
up and took a seat at the table to claim her share.
My other niece and my
nephew showed no interest at all which actually made the Oldest
Island Boy, the Island Girl and KW very happy because that meant a
four way split instead of splitting it six ways.
Mounds and mounds of
change poured onto the table and while the kids were counting it my
MIL asked if this was better than letting them smash a GingerbreadHouse.
Yes, this was MUCH less
disturbing – and fun to watch.
It took almost two hours
for them to count all of the change and I swear I've never seen them
concentrate on something so hard.
In the end, there was
almost $600 dollars in change – which meant each kid got about
$150.
Later that night, when the
Youngest got home from work we handed him the presents from that day
and after he finished unwrapping them the Oldest told him there was
one more surprise.
He went to his room and
came back carrying the Youngest's bag of change.
The look on the Youngest's
face was priceless. $150 dollars in change takes up an entire large
Ziploc bag and weighs a ton so when the Oldest dropped it in his lap
I thought the Youngest was going to fall over.
He was sorry he had to
work on Christmas Day but seeing that bag of money made him really
happy.
Sadly, my back was hurting so I didn't take many pictures but we really had a wonderful day.
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