Prime Christmas Age ⇒

I am enjoying the Christmas season and I hope you are too! Elise and Daniella are at the prime age for Christmas - they don't ask for much, they are all about Santa and we are enjoying the activities on the Advent Calendar I made. Daniella may be catching on though as every time she asks me for something at the store and I say "not today" she says "maybe for Christmas I can buy it" or :Maybe Santa will bring one for me"

I love everything about Christmas. I like the hustle and bustle (I am done my shopping - hooray for Amazon!). I like finding the perfect gift for someone in my family. I like the lights and the music. I love walking around and seeing the houses all decked out and lit up at night.

This year I spread my favourite things about Christmas among some friends by making Advent Calendars with little Christmas things to do each day: some big, some small. The families I gave them to are having fun. I can't wait until the 21st hoping that at least one of them will come carolling at my house!

We went out on the weekend and cut down our tree. I didn't realize it was a 'fancy' tree when I found it and declared, 'this is it! this is the one! so we were a bit surprised when we went to pay. Grand Fir...oops! I love my husband. I have strung Christmas lights on the dollhouse and am getting a nice collection of coloured lights for outside that I pick up after Christmas. I think next year I would like one of those lit up reindeer. I will have to start saving so I can get one before they are sold out. I don't know where we will store it...maybe in Charlotte's crawl space.

Yesterday, I relived one of my favourite childhood memories: tobogganing. The soccer field at the local elementary school has a small slope at one end of it and it had just enough snow for us to get some speed on our sled. Elise and Daniella enjoyed it very much. It even snowed a little while we were out there so it felt very Christmassy. There I was, pulling my beautiful, laughing young daughters down the street in the sled and thinking 'I remember doing this with Dad' well, he never pulled us down the street but he often took us tobogganing. I had a chuckle to myself and ended up phoning him while we were still out there because I had to keep reminding Elise to not walk up the toboggan track to get back to the top of the hill. Dad used to have to tell us that all the time!

Tomorrow we will go to the mall to see Santa. It will be interesting to hear what they ask him for. They wrote their letters and asked for seemingly random things. Elise asked for a pogo stick - huh? I thought they were going to ask for Doctor Barbie. I am waiting to make my last purchases until they sit on the fat man's knee and ask him for something once and for all!

I hope you enjoy this holiday season. I have so many lovely memories of Christmas Past and I hope my girls will enjoy Christmas as much as I do as they get older. Let it not ever be about the presents!