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Showing posts with label it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Show all posts
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Friday, December 4, 2009

It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas

It's definitely feeling like Christmas now. Besides the decorations at home, here are some of the things that are telltale signs of Christmas around here:
  1. I play the all-Christmas, all-the-time radio station whenever I'm in the car and Annie complains about it, all-whining, all-the-time. Guess she's forgotten that the big man is watching (and I don't mean her dad!).
  2. We've gotten a few Christmas cards in the mail. Please don't ask about ours. They might get sent out by Easter.
  3. We picked a tag off the giving tree at church and Charlie wanted to know what he has to do to get his name on there.
  4. The DVR is working overtime taping all the Christmas specials.
  5. There were snow flurries in the air as I went to a Christmas concert with a friend tonight.
  6. I've taken back three gifts, with a 4th one waiting to go to the post office.
  7. Every day this week, there have been boxes waiting for me on the front porch and kids standing over the boxes asking "is that one for me?!" (Duh! Santa doesn't deliver gifts in Amazon.com boxes.)
  8. Robbie asks every day how many days until bowling with Santa.
  9. My Christmas gift-giving spreadsheet is color-coded. Yellow for purchased and in-hand. Gray for purchased, but not yet delivered. White for not yet purchased.
  10. My kids have light envy. They keep asking when we can put up our Christmas lights. I keep telling them the lights are up. But when your house looks like this:
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it's hard to compete with this:

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and this:

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(The pics aren't great quality, but it was the best I could do with an iPhone in 20 degree weather at 1:30am!) What's the holiday view from your house right now?