Getting Ready

This year, on the day after Thanksgiving:

• I avoided any shopping and instead the kids and I went out and bought our Christmas tree.
• Juliet decorated the entire tree all by herself, after I strung it up with lights. (I only had to move a few ornaments higher up in the branches because Flossie is a bonafide Ornament Snatcher/Destroyer.)
• By weekend's end the house was decorated, which makes me feel really, really happy.
• I started wondering if I might be able to knit a sweater for my son by Christmas morning. Am I nuts??? 
• I'm nearly done Christmas shopping, and I did most of it online.
• Tomorrow I'll stuff the Advent Stockings with goodies (chocolate and candy) and fun activities (baking cookies, a drive to look at Christmas lights around town, etc.).

December...bring it on. I'm ready!

Comments

[jess]

You can! knit a sweater by Christmas. Go, Paige, Go!

[Jodi]

Your decorations look wonderful....I hope your season is festive and jolly. And yes, you just might be nuts starting a sweater now. But, you gotta have hope -- good luck!

[Natalie]

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas over here. I love it! Very inspiring to get my act together. My house looks like a fabric store exploded in it.

[Adrienne]

You rock (around the Christmas tree). We hope to do some Christmas boogy-ing this weekend. Ho ho ho!

[yolanda]

Such lovely stockings. I love all your holiday decorations.