December...ALREADY?!

A full week into December...and we've yet to make progress towards Christmas.  It's funny how this time of year, as it happens EVERY year, always seem to "sneak up" on us and goes by too quickly...whereas the rest of the year seems to take FOREVER until the holidays to come.

Well, part of that is by tradition for us: we decided when Maddie was born that we would not deprive her of "her special day" by decorating our house BEFORE December 11th...and so far, that has worked out...except now that she's turning 5, she's asking us why we don't pull out the tree (ummm, we don't have a tree to "pull out" from anywhere because we like real trees) and why there isn't going to be snow on Christmas Day here (umm, we don't live in the mountains?).  

But as we are receiving all these beautiful and cute Christmas cards, all we can think of is "OVERacheivers?!" (that's better than thinking how much of laggers we are, right? :P)  We are working on our cards...and when December 12th arrives, I will definitely feel the pressure of having Christmas up and running :)