Activity on the ol’ blog will probably be minimal over the next few days, but I wanted to be sure to wish each of you a very Merry Christmas this year. Here are just a few of the things we’ve already done or we will be doing over the next few days to celebrate the holidays:

• Listening to copious amounts of Christmas music, especially my All-Time Favorite playlist.
• Sunny will be making another batch of her awesome fudge. I took her last batch to the office this week and it was gone pretty quickly!
• We took the kids to the store last week to pick out Christmas gifts for some children in our community. One of the struggles for us as parents is to help our children understand that Christmas isn’t about how many gifts they receive but about giving. We weren’t able to do much, but our kids really enjoyed picking out their gifts and helping wrap them.
• We plan on watching the Christmas episodes of all our favorite shows: Raymond, Andy Griffith, The Honeymooners. If only LOST had a holiday episode!
• We won’t be making any last minute trips to Wal-Mart…cuz we’re done with our shopping, baby!
• Tomorrow I’ll be taking Abby Kate and Joshua to Nashville for the Titans game with their uncle Roger. We’ve been looking forward to this for weeks!
• We’ll continue to be entertained by Joshua’s lively rendition of “No Way In A Manger.” (YouTube video forthcoming.) I love that the kids associate Christmas with “Baby Jesus.”
• Last night we made our annual pilgrimmage to Santa’s Village (pics to be posted later). I’m thinking tonight we might drive around town to see the Christmas lights.
• Christmas Eve we’ll read Luke 2 and ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas to the kids. And, yes, we’re doing the Santa thing. The kids are so excited!

I hope you and your family enjoy a wonderful Christmas season together. God bless.