It's Christmas Eve!
I love Christmas. I always have. My parents did a wonderful job making Christmas so full of magic. I often wish I could have the ability that children have to believe in all the magic of Christmas. You never totally get that back, but I think having kids gets me pretty darn close. I remember being little and loving Christmas movies and Christmas music. I hate when the days start getting shorter and it gets dark early. But all that changes when Christmas lights start going up. Once people start putting up their decorations I couldn't be happier that it's dark. I love to see the lights as I'm driving. It makes me nostalgic and feel that magic and wonderment of Christmas in a whole new way.
It warms my heart that Conor has the same love of Christmas. He loves the lights, the movies, snowmen and particularly Santa. We read Christmas stories at night. He looks for Alf (our Elf of the Shelf) everyday and his smile when he finds him is priceless.
This year is funny. I feel like Christmas snuck up on us. This is probably because of a shorter time this year between Thanksgiving and Christmas and that that we spent a week of that shortened time in DisneyWorld. I love DisneyWorld but 80 degree temperatures make it hard to feel like Christmas. (Though Disney was obviously still magical and amazing!) I feel like I didn't have time this year to enjoy the season as much as I would like and we didn't get to do lots of Christmas stuff. This is a little disappointing to me though I'm sure for Conor it's good enough.
I was thinking that with the holidays being right before my due date it would make time pass before Baby Mack (Mike spilled the beans so I'm embracing it) arrived. Funny though as quickly as Christmas got here this pregnancy seems to be dragging now. Go figure! Oh well he will be here in less then a month and I'm sure life would get more crazy.
In the meantime I will enjoy Christmas. After all Santa should be here shortly!
Merry Christmas!!!
