'Tis the Season

I must admit, it seemed to take me a little time to get into the groove of all things Christmas this year. I'm not really sure why though. Although, I did put the Christmas tree up on November 29th and completed the rest of the decorating the following week. Our Christmas shopping was also complete pretty early this year as well. I think we have just had so much going on this year and with an extra little person to care for, I seem to be a little more busy these days.

All that being said, I'm definitely in the Christmas spirit now. I have been listening to Christmas music all week long every chance that I get...including right now :) I finally did most of my Christmas baking early last week which included 2 pans of Skor fudge, 12 dozen ginger cookies, and 6 dozen peanut butter balls. The majority of my baking was then packed up and given to our friends. I started this little goodies gift giving tradition a few years ago. I still have to make another batch of peanut butter balls...they're our favorite so we like to have lots all for ourselves! I'm hoping to get them made tomorrow, if all goes as planned. Cory has also requested almond bark but I'm not sure that I'll get to that this year.

I finally wrapped all the Christmas gifts yesterday. I had been putting it off because it is such a big job and I like to be able to do it all at once, if at all possible. I got all of the gifts for everyone except Cameron wrapped before Cameron went to bed and then I had to wrap all of his gifts. It is a job I'm very happy to have completed, although it didn't take me nearly as long as it has other years. I think it helped that we had a budget that we managed to stick to this year so we didn't go overboard. Well, at least I don't think we went too crazy but I may think differently come Christmas morning when it looks like a bomb went off in our living room.

As I mentioned, we've been a little busy. Last week we went to Cameron's Christmas concert at school...it was so cute! He did great but he was a little bit nervous. He got all dressed up in his new suit (minus a suit jacket) that we got him...he just loves getting dressed up. We had two Christmas parties to attend this past weekend, one Friday and the other Saturday. Both nights we said we weren't staying out late...LOL! The first night we got home at 12:15am and the second night we got home at 1:45am, so we were extremely tired but we're starting to get caught up on our sleep.

So, that's what we've been up to these days...busy, busy, busy. I'm sure that is the trend in most households this time of year though.