And then there was December...

Our family had great intentions this year. We planned to put up the tree early, decorate the house, and start having all of our holiday fun and make it last the entire month of December!

Well, we did get the tree out and up the day after Thanksgiving. We were well on our way to our goal....but we didn't finish decorating that day because mom didn't have the little sticky pieces for the back of her wonderful 3M hooks. So, she laid the stockings under the tree and wrapped the garland in the corner around the book basket. She left the nativity scene in the garage.

Time passed and mom consistently forgot to get the parts for those darn hooks, so everything remained only half done for quite a while! She finally did buy the parts she needed, but then decided it was just too late to make the effort to finish getting everything up! (How pathetic, right???)

The one thing that we managed to do was our annual decorating of a gingerbread structure. We've done many houses, but our kid's favorite has been the train. SO, we had a seven-car train this year. It was a bit too big, but tons of fun.

December flew by. We are not really sure where it went. Some goodies were made and passed out, but not as many as we had initially planned. Family photos never happened. For that matter, neither did our annual family Christmas letter! (which we are actually aiming for making at New Year's, so stayed tuned...)

We are suddenly on the tail end of December but looking forward to the new year...