Christmas, in pictures

While we didn't take as many pictures as we normally do (Mom, you are slacking), here are the pictures from the past couple of days that we did take.  Hope you had a very Merry Christmas! Remember, the Christmas season lasts until Jan 6th!

You must wear your paper crowns...and I got Tri Delta colors!

My mom's beautiful Christmas tree

Half of those were for me, the other half were from Will

My mom, Wayne and CC

The women of the family

My mom loved her candy cane slippers from Aunt Judy!

I do this...a lot

Finally, a nice picture

CC in her new sweater and Christmas bow

CC was a good girl this year!

Wrigley, so handsome!

Christmas wore her out, she slept for two days!

Decorations

Today is November 30th and I have NO Christmas decorations up! At first I just claimed laziness and the fact that we were traveling all during Thanksgiving week as the reasons I have no decorations up.  Now, I'm just refusing to put anything up until December! 

I was listening to The Catholic Channel on my new satellite radio (thanks, Daddy) the other day and they were talking about how we are NOT in the Christmas season, we are in the Advent season!  The Christmas season doesn't officially begin until Christmas Eve and goes through January 6th.  A woman called in and made an excellent analogy.  When a woman is pregnant, the family prepares for the new baby little by little,  decorating the nursery doesn't usually happen in one day.  This is how we can view the Advent season as well, decorate and prepare for Christmas little by little.  We shouldn't stress out about how much or how little we have accomplished by a certain time.  We should take it easy and realize that everything doesn't have to be perfect in one afternoon. So now, I'm adding that to the reason I have no decorations up, I'm going to do things little by little to prepare myself for the coming of Christ.   Thanks The Catholic Channel for putting it into perspective!