Are you ready!!!?????

This is the first year for me, but I am completely done and ready for Christmas...and have been for about 2 weeks now. How that happened? I have NO clue...LOL. Merry Christmas everyone!!

hi there jillhill cause its friday here in Australia i need to tonight go to the shopping centre and buy a little bit more presents for my kids brother and mum and dad my mum is in the nursing home which is hard cause i think i will buy her a pair of shoes for christmas for her thanks for this discussion and happy posting

yes and just in time! we got snowed in this afternoon, i finished my last bit of shopping (for Christmas dinner) this morning, now I just need to finish wrapping presents and find a place to put them... under the tree is full. LOL

After mom and I took my 6 year old cousin to see Santa at the mall and helped her shop for mommy, daddy, and big brother we had to bring her back home and help wrap her presents. After that adventure mom and I hit four food chains in a row until after midnight. I can't even tell you how much money flew out the window just to get all the makings for the ferocious bake off that started this morning. She of course, is going first baking an old fashioned cheesecake, butter cookies and lemon squares. Then I get to bake my cinnamon loaves, ginger cookies, and chocolate tipped cookie fingers..complete with brandy and chopped pecans and turtle cookies. Fun, fun, fun...ugh!

i'm not yet ready!!! .

We are all ready! Just waiting for the big day!

I am all set for Christmas. Have to wrap one gift to take with us Christmas Eve to my brother's house. This year we sent money or gave gift cards. Our kids are older and it's so much easier to do Christmas this way. Merry Christmas.

I'm almost ready. I just have to wrap one of my mom's presents. I'm not sure how I'm going to wrap it, and I really wanted to wrap it and not put it in a bag. But I'm definitely in the Christmas spirit. I'm already wishing it wasn't over, and it hasn't even arrived yet! : )

I am baking today...banana bread and pumpkin bread...my kids are bringing the cookies and sweets. I have to make my family Christmas Cards, and then get ready for the big dinner. I am fixing a 25 lb turkey so I have lots of bread drying for sage dressing, will get all of my vegetables and salads put together on Monday morning after putting the turkey in. I will set up my tables and put all of the dishes out on Saturday...so I don't get so pooped on Christmas Eve. We are going to show old home movies when all of my kids and grandkids were really young...should be fun. I have newspaper clippings of everytime one of my family made the news...about 40 articles. Some of the kids were snowmobiling, fishing and doing projects in school..shoveling...playing at the park etc.so that may strike up lots of memories and conversation. I try to have a special activity for each Christmas Eve. One time we played all of the games that I used to have the kids play at their birthday parties with their little friends. The games were pin the tail on the donkey, put the clothespins in the bottle..relay games (boys against the girls) and also the blindfolded game with cotton balls where you try to scoop up as many of the little white things as possible with a small spoon and put them into a small bowl...sometimes they didn't even come close to the pile or the bowl, the one with the most cotton balls got a prize...we laughed until we cried. I have lots of pictures of them having fun with childish games. I guess I am pretty much ready for another fun night with the family.