It's Begining to Look Like Christmas

We disrespected the Turkey and for the first time ever my tree was up the weekend before Thanksgiving. In my defense we were out of town in Chicago and Kenosha for all of our Thanksgiving time off and the Turkey was on the latest possible day that it could be, meaning we had one less weekend before Christmas this year.

Then this week we got a couple inches of snow which always makes you feel like Christmas should be coming. Friday was St. Nicolas's Day and the boys got a little candy and banana's in their shoes in the morning.

We started opening and reading Christmas books on December 1st and the collection of books under the tree is growing fast! Every night we unwrap two or three Christmas themed books to read that night. It's my version of an advent calendar.

The boys got to see Santa twice in two days, once at daycare and at our works Children's Christmas party. Adam sat on Santa's lap and told him what he would like. Eli would not and I didn't even get a screaming mad/scared picture like years in the past.

The first weekend in December I went to Christmas Tea with my Aunts and one cousin. I have been going to tea five years and it is so nice to get away with the girls and eat fun tea foods. Every table is decorated differently by the host and they are all so beautiful. Below are pictures of some of my favorites. It gets you in the festive Holiday spirit for sure and then for an hour we get to listen to entertainment and I realize that I don't get to sit with my thoughts very often.