This is a photo of all of my stuff on our family room ottoman ... aka, Command Central ... an unstaged peek into my life on the couch.
The 'fog' finally lifted on Wednesday morning, and I quickly realized that I had lost a full three days of Christmas preparations. Fortunately, there's not too much left to do, and no small children at home expecting a full Santa production. I should easily accomplish the few things that I have left on my To Do List.
Our Christmas tree is finished.
I will not finish the remaining decorations I planned for our front porch ... I probably could, but it would take time away from other things that I should be doing instead. The box of half-finished ornaments will now have to wait until next Christmas to be used. (I showed you how I was making glitter stars in THIS post.) I'm a bit disappointed that I won't finish, because I was really excited to see how everything would turn out. Perhaps next year I may have our new porch railing and gingerbread made and installed ... wouldn't that be a great accomplishment.
This railing in downtown Warrenton is similar to what we have planned for our porch.
Christmas cards were signed and addressed on Monday, and mailed on Tuesday. In this modern email/social media/instant gratification world we live in, I still love the old-school feelings of a hand-written Christmas card. We include a letter in our cards, to bring everyone up to date on whatever happened with us during the year ... not one of those boastful letters that we all dread receiving ... in fact, the one year we didn't do a letter, we received complaints from friends and family, each one thinking that we had forgotten to put a letter into their card.
In our letter, I included this photo of us on our anniversary in the Arctic Ocean in Barrow, Alaska.
Anyway, even though I am forced to do less this year, Christmas here will be as good as it always is ... I love Christmas! It reminds me of my favorite quote from "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" (my all-time favorite TV Christmas special ... our Siamese cat was named after Cindy Lou Who.)
Five days to go ... I can't wait!