Christmas pictures are coming...

...just give me a day! It's been crazy around here. Christmas excitment is in the air, and apparently in whatever my kids have been drinking (egg nog, hot chocolate, cider...you name it!). They have been "bouncing off the walls hyper" lately. By the time Christmas gets here, I am going to be spent!  I sometimes try to remember what things were like when I was little. How excited I was and how my Mom never seemed to be annoyed by the extra energy radiating from her nine little children...or maybe I was just too excited to notice, even if she were annoyed. The point is, that children see Christmas for all it has to offer and I think that sometimes we, as adults see it for the list of things we have to do. When our kids bounce up to us ringing jingle bells in our faces, and going off for ten minutes about santa and their wishlists, or listing kids at school who are sure to be on the naughty list, or begging to have more cookies, or pulling ornaments off the Christmas tree, or going for yet another glass of messy hot chocolate, or hanging countless Christmas pictures on the fridge, or re-arranging the nativity set again (O had a nice battle between a shepard and a wise man yesterday...not sure who won!), or reminding us of the endless parties they have coming up AND the list of presents and supplies needed for each one, or complaining that our yard doesn't have enough Christmas lights and is not as "Christmasy" as so-and-so's house...we tend to feel a little over-whelmed. But really, all these stressful, crazy things are little bits of what make Christmas magical for kids. So maybe, with a big cup of perspective and possibly a few Ibuprofen, I will learn to lighten up a bit this year and let my kids enjoy the season for all the fun and magic it posseses! In the mean time, I have pictures to edit and I will do my best to post them tomorrow...




...unless of course I am too busy sending Christmas presents to relatives much later than I had planned to! We'll just wait and see how it goes!


Hope everyone is having a fun Christmas season so far!