It's the most wonderful time of the year!

Ahh, December!  I love it!  It really is my favorite month. I love the change in the weather, getting ready for Christmas, my birthday and Emily's birthday.The music!  Oh how I love Christmas music! It just never gets old for me.  I've alway's loved Christmastime. I think it has to do with my birthday being 5 days before Christmas and now I love it even more because Emily is also a December baby!  I have so many fond memories of Christmas as a child and an adult.  I remember going to Christmas Eve mass and racing home to wait for everyone to arrive to eat dinner and then open presents! Grandma Jo sitting with us kids in the living room chanting, "Presents, presents, we want presents!"  Those are great memories that I still cherish to this day!
 The food is always delicious at my parents house and I do miss that since I've moved away.  Nothing like Orsi pizza!  We haven't been home for the last 2 Christmases but we do our best here in NJ to make the best of it.  We put our tree up last weekend and it has been quite wonderful watching my girls explore and touch the tree. Abby is still enchanted with the ornaments and the ribbon that goes around the tree and of course all the gifts underneath it! It  is really fun to watch Emily explore the tree this year.  Last year she had just turned 1 and she really wasn't into to much trouble but this year she is certainly up to no good!  I look over and I catch her standing as close as she can to the tree and she is touching and looking carefully at every ornament she can!  She brings me ornaments she has taken off the tree and I help her put them back on!  Today I walked into the living room and noticed she had unraveled some of the ribbon off the lower portion of the tree. No big deal though, we just fixed it. I think this will be a great Christmas. We have been blessed this year and I hope and pray this trend continues.  Merry Christmas!