Playing CATCH up!

FINALLY I have been waking up to the idea of Christmas and all the fun that it brings! Thanks to many of my "concerned" friends and family, offering to "help" me, inviting us to fun Christmas festivities and also (unknowingly) making me feel guilty with their awesome displays of Christmas cheer-I have finally snapped out of it! You'll all be relieved to hear (chuckle-chuckle) that we do indeed have our tree up and decorated, lights strung along the roof line of our house and stockings hung! Indeed, Santa will be sure to find our house this year (that is if we can keep the kids from killing each other:) We devoted the entire day yesterday to sparkling up the house and getting the decorating DONE. I made sure to put out the two most important things first, the tree and the nativity. Everything else fell into place after that. PHEW! The only thing that could make me happier is if I could get a few presents wrapped and throw them under the tree. It's a little (okay, A LOT ) bare right now. But, we'll get there! Also, now that I am updating this sad little neglected blog, I can feel completely at peace and BALANCED!

So, this blog of ours has served a great purpose this year in keeping track of our family memories as well as helping us stay in touch with the people we adore. Now that it has been almost a FULL year of blogging, I am going to have it printed out so it can be preserved along side our family scrapbooks (I know of a few websites that do this. I will do a bit more research and then let you all know which company I use. Plus, if any of you have any recommendations. . .). I've tried hard to make sure I haven't left anything out about our family happenings, but lately I have slacked a little. The next few posts are serving the purpose of CATCHING me up a bit. So, it might be boring and a little out of date to most of the world, but it must be done. So here goes. . .