2009 has started

The holiday season has begun in earnest. Doug has already cut out Christmas ornaments and I have already decorated my first baby tree for one of my new "grand" babies. (I would have two but the other decorations are still packed away in the garage.

I think Doug my have about 8 or 10 of the sixty plus ornaments already cut out. The wood is so pretty this year that I just want to stain these naturally.

Christmas cards are started by not finished. I know. I know. I usually do Christmas cards on the fourth of July but this year I was playing with a grand son. Labor day I will be playing with a grand son again. So I am trying to catch Sunday afternoons to do cards.

I have however started wrapping gifts. I made boxes for the babies Advent presents this year. I think they are too young to appreciate their own tree. So I made boxes with Santas on them to get the presents out of. Jeremiah says that I don't need presents. Ian will just play with the box. I knew that. He is a natural baby. Go figure.

Well, I plan to have 30 trees for our house. I will decorate a huge tree for the Lil Bit of Christmas at the university and I will decorate the tree at the store. After Christmas I plan... plan to have a picture of all of them on the blog to look at til next year. I keep a list of what trees go where in the house and try to change some of them up every year. Some are old staples. I will not put out my cotton this year because I put it on a tree last year. I think I will use my blue stuff from the big tree last year at the Convo center for this year. If mamas have lil juniors picture taken with Santa every year at least this tree will look a lot different from last year when I had gingerbread toys and red and green ornaments on in.

Until later,

I am still dreaming of the time

when all the trees are decorated

and guest come walking through the door.

Vera