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A moment to catch up, reflect on days past and actually enjoy the moment!
Things started to get a bit crazy for me, especially the closer it got to Christmas. I know now I will never let myself get that far behind again! I need a better plan, better ideas to make the holiday season run smoothly.
So many things I didn't get to enjoy that I usually look forward to:
1. Making homemade gifts for...

Santa Garrett was adorable - although he wasn't a willing participant at first. These are some of my favorite shots of him and his brother.

How hard could it be to get a good picture of 4 willing participants??? Let's just say it wasn't easy!

The kids only helped out a bit this year with decorating the tree and the house for that matter. They were both proud of their Santa ornaments each made in 6th grade.
and Zach really wanted a Santa hat to wear the last week of school. I'll have to ask him where it is now?

The annual cookie exchange was held again at Deb's on Saturday. What a fun day for us all - a bunch of women socializing over lunch a $1 gift exchange, ornament exchange and oh yeah COOKIES! Wow, were there some great cookies. This year there were 21 participants in the cookie exchange and here is just a sample of some of the cookies.

One of the pages in Ali's perspectives book is "I READ" and you fill in the blank, plus add pictures and a story to your reading. I have so many books I want to read - I really need to come up with just a books to read journal and a books I've read Journal.
While I'm still working on this book - it's been a fun project to just go down and complete a couple pages and put them in the book.
I eat
I...

We went to Hinckley Park on Sunday to try and come up with some Christmas pictures. Luckily it hadn't started raining and there was still a bit of snow on the ground to capture these shots. I think we got some good ones!

I got an email from Shimelle with her upcoming class list. Since I missed Done and Dusted I was tempted to take that one. I was also intrigued about her Journal your Christmas class and then went to check out some blogs and seen that even Ali Edwards was taking this class.
So starting tomorrow I will begin my journaling the journey to Christmas. I'll try post as I complete projects.