Abundant Blessings Homestead

It's beginning to look alot like Christmas....

It's been a whirlwind of a time around here. It's so wonderful having Mom and Dad back with us again. I love having such a great friend to go shopping with..and just generally be with!

My cookie swap was, as usual, alot of fun. Thanks, ladies, for coming, and sharing both your night and your cookies with me! It humbles me to think of the distance you traveled and time away from your family you spent...to be in our home. What treasures you all are to me.

Aunt Nina arrives on Tuesday!!!! We are so excited!!! We'll head to the Huntsville airport to pick her up. We have a couple of stops to make on the way...but the children are especially excited to see her in that airport!!

I believe I have all of my shopping completed. There is plenty of wrapping to be done..but once I do that, everything is ready for the big day. All but the couple of gifts that I'm waiting to arrive in the mail...like Mom and Dad's...and Aunt Nina's! Yep, I waited a bit too long to order said gifts...oops!

The only big thing left to do before Christmas is the annual Mom's sugar cookie bake and decorate-a-thon. It's an annual tradition, one not to be missed. My FAVORITE Christmas cookie is the iced sugar cookie. They must be Mom's recipe..and they must be iced and decorated. That says Christmas to me. Could it be all those hours I spent icing and decorating a gajillion cookies as a child?

The weather is to turn colder soon. It's supposed to warm up a bit on Christmas Eve day...along with more rain. Then it's to get colder again....where is winter?? I know we need the rain...the drought we've gone through is not good at all...but days on end of rain equals mud...thick, gooey mud. Not cool...not cool at all!

Our anniversary is coming up in January...maybe we can get away after Christmas for a date night while Mom and Dad are still here...hmmm...will have to talk to Mom about this...

If I don't get to blog again before Christmas, I wish you all a very Merry Christmas!!!