What a great Christmas Season we are having. This is our youngest grandchild...6 months old...and she is just loving all the excitement of Christmas. We always have a lot of traveling around to do to be able to see all eight of our grandkids. Maybe one of these days we will get a picture of all eight of them at one time. I think I will start working on a collage of pictures of the grandkids.

My sister, Chris, and I were really spoiled at Christmas. We always had lots of presents on Christmas morning, and then more aunts and uncles and grandparents to see where we would continue the unwrapping of one present after the other. I still feel the same excitment at Christmas as I did as a kid. I am the first one to have Christmas lights on the outside and it is very difficult for me to wait until Thanksgiving to put up the tree. I try to put off the wrapping of presents and the baking of cookies or I will be done all the fun Christmas stuff way before I need to...