First Christmas

Less than a week before Christmas! And two weeks of play ahead of me. :) I'm still running around trying to get everything done and packed and sent off to everyone before Christmas Day. (I feel we may need to take out a small loan to send out all the gifts! LOL!!) I had such fun making ornaments, that i wanted to send one to EVERYONE. Plus, gifts to parents, grandparents, brother/sis-in-law, and friends gets pricy when you're sending more than just a card. Totally worth it, though. I loooove gift giving more than gift getting....
As for myself, i'd rather have an adventure day and a picture to remember it by more than anything else in the world, which is why the time off is going to be so special. A lot of the cool touristy things Rich and i have wanted to do together since moving have been postponed either because of time or finances or both, but hopefully we will get to check some things off our our "wish list" soon. But really, i'm looking forward to Christmas day... just church with Ricard, being generally lazy, and relaxing together. Coffee, and breakfast with just Toak and Mini, and maybe a walk in the snow... if the weather cooperates and the wind isn't so cold. And only one rule: no projects or home improvement tasks for a whole day. whoo hoo!
We're so close to having many of our home projects done.. it feels like i'm forever saying that, though. Some days i just have to pretend the insanity doesn't exist, because it's impossible to clean up when you're living in a make-shift construction site.
Ah, well. Life is good.