Christmas is coming...

"Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat..." Or at least someone is getting fat with the abundance of holiday goodies.  That song is one of my Christmas earworms - and I don't mind it. :) 

A poinsettia from last year is blooming. Yay!
They usually don't make it to the next year, let alone bloom.

Things are falling into place here as far as Christmas preparations.

--the decorating is done both inside and out (except for a couple of bows I want to add to flower pots), 

--the cards are written and mailed (except for a few local ones)

--the baking is done (except for Christmas dinner bread and desserts), 

--the gifts are done and wrapped (except for the dog bones I want to get for my sister's dogs), 

--the gifts for coworkers and neighbors have been delivered (except for the one for the neighbor who never seems to be home),

--the details of family visits have been ironed out with some family joining us for Christmas Eve (except for the email I just got proposing an extended family outdoor gathering Christmas afternoon), 

--the favorite Christmas shows have been watched, (except White Christmas), 

--big light displays have been visited (except for one we just heard about this past weekend), 

--so to say it another way, Christmas plans are going well (except for the ones that aren't.)

How are things at your house?

Christmas is Coming

Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat... 

That's my Christmas song earworm for the day and no one does it better than Miss Piggy and her friends. 

Christmas is coming and we are busy with preparations. The outside lights are up, however parts of two strands have stopped lighting.  But they are what they are and still pretty all the same. (In a Bah, humbug minute, I'm getting tired of lights not working. We have a large bag full of strands that will only partially light. What good are LED bulbs that will burn forever if the wires between them are cheap. I'd spend more for lights if I could figure out which ones were better quality.) Shortly after we finished the outside lights, I mailed our annual Christmas letter. Christmas letters and cards, for that matter, are very old school, but I'm going to keep them up as long as I can. Because, let's face it, I'm old school for most things.

The tree is also up and decorated, and we declared the inside decorations done yesterday. Nothing fancy, but just enough to make it festive and special for this time of year. Last night, Ward and I sat down and figured out what still has to be done to complete gifts for the people on our list. We making many of our gifts this year and have been busy elves working on several things that I can't show at this point.

And it's a Christmas miracle. I have two poinsettia plants that I got last Christmas which are still alive! And they're blooming!! They are spindly and all of the leaves are falling off, but they make me happy all the same. I think of them as the  Charlie Brown Christmas tree of the poinsettia world. :)

Do you celebrate Christmas? Are doing any decorations this year?