[DianaB]

Everyone has such wonderful plans for Christmas!! I wish that I could magically peek in and see all of you with with your families for just a few minutes!

Lindsey, I wish that I were young enough to even think about tackling all of that AND having it done in just a few days!!! Sigh.......I'm just hoping to have my house CLEAN by Christmas!! LOL

Maddie, I'm so happy for you to be so far along in your studies!!! You'll be done before you know it!! Thanks so much for popping in to keep us posted on how your doing!

On Christmas Eve we always go to my husband's aunt's home to spend the evening with Glen's family, aunts, uncles, cousins, brothers, sisters, neices and nephews. Glen's house that he grew up in was always so messy that they always had Christmas at this aunt's house (She lived with her father, Glen's grandfather). For Glen it's what he's always done so we still continue with that.

For Christmas, this will be Jaci's last Christmas at home with us.....sadly. She will get up in the morning and bring her stocking into our room and open it up on the bed with us then we'll get up, eat a small bite, and open our presents. Then we'll have a big lunch with the kids and grandkids all here and open presents. We open our presents one at a time starting with the youngest first. Then the kids will leave to go to their other families and those of us that are left here will play games, do puzzles, or play pool or ping pong in the basement.

Actually, this year I'm not sure if we'll be having lunch or supper with the kids.....we have a couple of new families that we're having to work around so we're not exactly sure what's going on. We have some kinks to work out but we'll get it done.....just as long as they're here for a little while....that's all I want!!!