It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas!

It is amazing the difference a night makes. Yesterday the high was in the 80s...the kids wore shorts and t-shirts to play outside...and today we are in the upper 40s and tumbling downward. That is December in Texas for you! I am thankful for the cool off - it is hard for me to get in the Christmas spirit when I am wearing my summer clothes!

I can't believe that I didn't make one post in all of the month of November. I started a project in our dining room - painting...can you believe it? Yes, once again I picked up a paint brush and attacked another room. I was hoping to have my family for Thanksgiving - at least that is what I told myself in order to get myself motivated to get all of the boxes out of my dining room and to get the walls painted. I almost made it...but not quite...the walls were done...but the room was still a mess! I did get it all picked up by the next weekend and now it is decorated for the holidays and looking mightly festive if I may say so myself. We put our Christmas tree in there because it has the bay window w/the shutters and you can see the tree from the street at night when we have its lights on.

Instead of Thanksgiving at our house...we took the turkey and dressing (Mom supplied all the rest) to Pflugerville and spent the holiday with my parents. We hadn't been in Texas for Thanksgiving in many, many years -- we spent the night and stayed to watch the t.u. vs. A&M game. I must say there is something rewarding about being in Austin when t.u. looses -- at least if you are an Aggie! It looks like my parents will come this way to celebrate Christmas - so I will get to enjoy my completed dining room after all! :-D

I can hardly believe that Christmas is just around the corner - what 15 days away? AHHHH! However, this is the first year that I will not have to mail the majority of my gifts. I usually have them wrapped and ready to go by this point in time so it makes me nervous that I don't have ANY of the wrapping done now. I hope that I won't procrastinate too much! It is also strange to not be planning on a BIG 2 week trip to Texas. This will be the FIRST year in my married life that I will wake up in my own bed on Christmas morning. How novel! And the first year that Santa will not come "early" to the Morgenroth house. You know he does that, right? For people that are not going to be home - he can come early - usually on a weekend - so that the family can take the time to enjoy their gifts before they have to leave them behind to go out of town. He is very thoughtful that way!

I hope that all of your holiday preparations are going well! I'll post more as the holidays approach!