It's the most wonderful time of the year....

I love Christmas!! Everything about it - the singing of Christmas carols, the scent of Christmas cookies baking in the oven, the joy on people's faces, candy cane jeans :) and especially celebrating the birth of our risen Savior, Jesus!! It seems like we had barely gotten over Thanksgiving and we were already in December. I love to decorate and usually I surprise my kids with setting up the lights outside and the lights on the tree while they are at school. Then they come home and help place the candy canes and tinsel on the tree. This year, I totally wanted to surprise them and on the ride home from school one day I told them with everything that was going on, that I just did not think we could have time to set up our Christmas decorations. Being sweet kids as they are, they said "What, well ok", "I just really like seeing the Christmas tree up". I told them I was sorry and they understood but their faces were sad. When we got home, Kira said "Hey, there are candy canes, and snowflakes up, and hey there are Christmas lights hanging" We walked in the door and Andrew said "Do we have a tree, do we have a tree.... Ahhh, YES, we have a tree". They both were joking and laughing because mommy had tricked them this year. We finished their homework and they set the candy canes on the tree as well as the tinsel and we turned the lights on together. There is nothing like seeing your precious childrens' faces as they are all aglow with the lights on the tree. Ahhhh, did I mention I love Christmas :)