Hallelujah!

Hallelujah! At 6:00 PM on December 23, I am finally ready for Christmas! All the gifts are bought, wrapped, and under the tree. The cards are sent, the groceries bought, the house cleaned up, and the 7-layer salad is in the fridge for tomorrow's Christmas Eve dinner. The house is aglow with candles and lights. Soon Sean and Misty will be here to spend the night so we can get up early on Christmas Eve morning for our little family gift-giving. I always love it when all my family is together under my roof when I lie down to sleep at night. I've ordered a pizza for tonight and we plan to play Scrabble. Tomorrow after we open gifts, I'll fix waffles for breakfast, a family tradition. Then Misty and I will make casseroles to take to Granny's house. After we eat dinner and open gifts with Doug's family, we'll visit my sister Mary Jane for her Christmas Eve celebration and dessert. On Christmas morning, I'll get up early to do some more cooking, and then we'll head down to Cindy's for my family's Christmas. Weeks worth of preparations will soon culminate in a week of celebration. Doug is off all week, and of course, school is out for me. I always love the week after Christmas better than any week of the year! Finally, I get to relax.