I took a look over our calendar for the next 6 weeks or so and I'm exhausted just from looking at it. We are jam packed with events so much that we don't have a free weekend until mid December and as you can imagine, “free” will be a relative term as we wrap up Christmas shopping, finish wrapping, and trim the tree.
Of course even with all the business, I really look forward to our Christmas traditions. A couple of my faves:
* buying goofy stocking stuffers for everyone (one year we bought my dad travel-sized Charmin for camping)
* having tamales and guacamole and margaritas on Christmas Eve – we pick them up earlier in the day from an awesome place around here since no one wants to cook and nothing is open on Christmas Eve
* this year we're starting what we hope will become a new tradition – we're going up into the mountains with some of our nearest and dearest and spending the weekend baking cookies and watching DVDs and such
What are your holiday traditions?
We always host Thanksgiving. My mom hosts Christmas Eve and My mother in law has Christmas.
I still have shopping to do as well. Arrgh.
Well, mine are pretty much the same as everyone else's. We get together with family, eat too much, talk a lot, eat some more. . . .