Crazy for Christmas!!!

Wow. somebody, or rather, THREE somebodies are just a tad excited about some big holiday that's apparently on the horizon???

 

I didn't have advent calendars on Dec 1 so they made their own version. Actually Sweetie got it all drawn out and set up and they take turns colouring in the presents, one for each day of December. They haven't forgotten a day yet and not one fight about it either (with only 9 days to go surely something is going to crack though right???)

We finished supper early tonight and headed out to look at a lighting display we'd heard about. It was quite a show and the kids were good and wound up anyway so why not take that on the road in a small confined space after letting them catch up on 16 days worth of chocolate advent calendars??? (yep, not my wisest parenting moment..) They loved the show, especially when we opened the sun roof and let them watch from there. Don't worry Rick, we were driving at a very low speed on a back road in a trailer park and everyone was perfectly safe!

We did some decorating last week for their party and tonight we picked up a Christmas tree and got that set up in the stand. Tomorrow night is our tree trimming and appetizer and snack extravaganza. They'll be wild when they get up tomorrow, wanting to get right at that!

It's been a pretty productive week! I got all the editing done for my last client of 2012 and had her proofing session on Tuesday. So with that done, I was able to delve into the Christmas preparations!

I got some more shopping done, baked brown sugar shortbread, a batch of festive cookies, one batch of Toffee Butter Crunch, a pan of brown sugar fudge and some Mars Bar Delight (this one for Murray since he's not crazy about the other stuff!).

I got our Christmas card photos printed and started mailing out the farthest ones. If you're overseas or a great distance away, your card is in the mail!

Teena and I had our annual Christmas luncheon (with a coupon, woot woot!) and enjoyed a nice sit down meal with other people waiting on us!

We also went to the Christmas concert at school. Most of the mess from last week's water is cleaned up, the girls & I washed off all the foam tiles aka "flooring" today and they put that back together. I packaged up the goodie boxes for their teachers from all the baking and unloaded almost all that and we delivered those to the teachers today.

And I only missed 2 classes at the gym this week! Although with all that baking under my nose it was not a good week to be doing any skipping! Surely I'm making progress on this Christmas business???? Time will tell!!!