Christmas Mood!

So I woke up at 6 this morning since our church is at 8:30. I made sure my homework was done and I was all caught up. Then, I turned on Sounds of Sunday and Christmas music was playing. It totally got me in the mood! Now I have to get shopping, get a tree, and get decorations up, the whole Sha-Bang!!!!

This is the time where I miss our families. My mom would be playing Christmas music since the end of October. She already would have decorated for Christmas at the house, baked Christmas goodies, and bought all of her Christmas presents. I haven't even started! I don't even know what to get Chris. I'm not very good at being "Santa."

I'm going to miss doing Christmas with both of our families. My mom's family comes over to their house every Christmas Eve and we do a little Christmas Eve program. We exchange ornaments with the cousins (I've gotten some pretty weird ornaments over the years. Some of them aren't even Christmassy, but I love them!), our Gran gives us all pajamas, there's a lot of food, our Aunt Patti gives us gifts, me and my sisters usually sing, and all the grandkids participate in the Nativity. I also just learned being in Chris's family that they usually buy gifts for everyone, but when I came into the family, I texted Chris's mom, Denise, to see what they do, and I suggested that we draw names. So we drew names last year, and we actually drew names this year too. I think I started their own little tradition. It's kind of fun now that Cindy, Chris's sister, is married too. Their family is really growing. It'll also be new this year too since Jared, my favorite brother-in-law (I call him "Bro" and he calls me "Home Slice.") is on his mission and we are gone. I miss Jared like crazy! He just lights up a room.