the most wonderful time of the year....

negligence is easy when there is so much else to do!

we have been feverishly preparing for christmas at the here in the household these past few weeks. we went to the christmas parade in downtown. we went to see santa. we went to look at christmas lights in the car (several times). we mailed the cards....baked the cookies....decorated said cookies...wrapped and wrapped and wrapped gifts. set up the tree, hung the lights....well, you get the idea. exactly what you have been doing the past two weeks too.

needless to say, i am one tired mama. but i would (and will) do it again every year over and over. it is still so fun to hear the boy burst into the living room and announce "miss-miss ree" every morning, (like it would go away overnight?) and then demand "on-on-on-on" until the tree is lit.

or to come in and find that the boy has "rearragned" all the gifts under the tree to the middle of the floor, and is in the process of removing the bows of said gifts. again.

or when little mama uses the calendar to count down the days to christmas.

its so worth it. all the shopping, all the baking, all the decorating.....they are having fun, just like little kids should. so its all worth it.

its also much easier to be optimistic about how worth it everything is when there are only two days left...in case you think i have lost my mind, had you asked me two weeks ago, i probably would have shouted at you about the entire holiday!

merry christmas!