Almost ready!

I've wrapped a few presents already!

Usually we are up till very late on Christmas Eve.

Not the smartest thing we do.

My oldest sister made that Santa years ago.

How cute is that!

I cleaned some today too.

But only some.

I really need to vacuum.

There are leaf pieces on the floor.

How did that get there?

You can not believe how gross the floors get in my house!

Davis made that amazing bird house.

It will go outside when there is no snow on the ground.

In the Spring.

Those are some of the jars of bath salts

ready to deliver and give out.

I have been just thinking

how weird it is that I made bath salts

(I am giving out store bought cookie dough

to families of the little kids I teach at church

and the ones I will teach next year.

Although, I still have a lot to deliver!

The note says,

"Everyone can use some 

"dough" 

at Christmas time!

I know.

Very clever!

But!

It's not my idea

AND 

It's not the first year I've done that.
So NOT so clever!).

 We only put up about a third of our ornaments.

I'm going for simple.

The more I put up the more I have to put away.

Genius.

One of Jeff's Great Aunts 

made us a sweet nativity when we were first married.

Love it.

Those dogs follow me most everywhere.

Love them!

First time in a month 

that you can see the top of the table!

Got a little more help with the snowflakes.

Not done yet.

I kept the decorations very simple this year.

Less stress for me.

And that's not a bad thing!

Lots of messes elsewhere in the house

so don't you think it's this clean

every where.

There is a vacuum right next to the table

ready to tempt or taunt me.

I've been working on being ready for "the big day"

and the days before and after

(one married couple is staying with us for the next couple of nights

which makes me so happy).

I'm going to tell you something so shocking 

that you may not even be able to believe it.

I am done with my grocery shopping!

Last year I shopped Christmas Eve 15 minutes before the store closed.

In my defense,

we went out of state for our son's wedding

just a few days before

and I didn't think the store would close so early.

Silly and stupid of me!

Anyway.

The lighting is a little funky in the photos

because I took these pictures at night

just a little while ago.

 The house wasn't ready earlier and won't be ready again tomorrow

or the next day or the day after that

or the day after that

etc. etc. etc.

So it goes without saying,

I'm not posting tomorrow.

I said it anyway.

Merry Christmas!

Hoping your holidays are simple and sweet!