Only five days til Christmas! Yikes! How did that happen?
Seriously, I love Christmas, but it seems that each year the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas gets shorter and shorter. Guess that indicates how old I'm getting to be! LOL!
I think we are mostly ready this year. Most of the gifts this year are intangibles, so there wasn't much running around and shopping to do. That was a nice break, but then I got to wondering what in the world will the kids do all day on Christmas if they don't have something to play with or to keep them occupied. So we might have to brave Wallyworld and get a game or two, or a puzzle or something of that nature.
I'm happy that we have Christmas Eve on Sunday because that really extends the time spent focusing on the Savior. We won't be shopping or running around after the 23rd this year and I like that idea. Hhhmmmm, probably ought to check my lists and make sure I'm prepared in the food department to go that long between store visits.
Soren is going to be so fun this year. He has been pretty good at leaving the tree and its decorations alone. A few years back I got a nice, pre-lit tree at Kmart for $12.50 during the after Christmas clearance. It also came with a stand that rotates, but since it's fairly big around and our living room is so small we've never had it rotate, cause it's usually smooshed up against a wall to make it fit. Well, since we are getting new furniture, which still isn't here and a whole nother story, we have already gotten rid of the old ones and now we have lots of room for a rotating tree. We have learned that that is a really good thing to have when you have a baby who wants to pull all the ornaments off. He can't hang on to them long enough to pull them off and he can't walk quickly enough to keep up with them once they move past him. I was also worried about him getting into the gifts, but he has yet to bother even one. I guess the cupboards and drawers in the kitchen are still entertaining and exciting enough for him.....He also really likes the lights in the window that we have up this year. We are not big decorators for Christmas, I think due to my desire to simplify everything, but we did find a working string of lights that work really well in the front window and Soren likes to stand on the couch and touch them one by one. His very first Christmas! Memories to keep close.
