My gift to you.

Well, those of you who wanted it, that is. ;-)

As I'm afraid that this Christmas Eve day might slip away from me before I have a chance to write, I will put this up now. Besides, I'm hoping that not very many of you are actually reading much LJ right now... hehehe.

( Our 2005 Christmas newsletter. )

And that's it! Please now, no comments about how corny it is - trust me, I already know! *gags*

The progression of Christmas Eve.

I hope you're having a wonderful Christmas Eve!

The baklava I just bought (and cracked open on the way home!) doesn't expire until 6/13/06.

Wow. That's mildly unsettling, that is. Still, it's sooooo good.

Wal*Mart was really not that bad today. We dropped off Philip at Runza, filled up the van with gas, went to WallyWorld, bought our twelve things and returned home in less than an hour. I am happy with that.

I did three loads of laundry between 11pm and 3am last night, so our clothes are good to go. I'm washing our bedding right now, and I'll probably wash the boys' tomorrow while they're playing with new toys and things. They'll sleep on them the one night, but then the bedding will still be pretty fresh when we return home again.

I'm off to make sandwiches for lunch and then start some cookies for Santa. We're heading to church at 3pm, so there will still be plenty of time to finish things up for Mr. Claus later on, too. :-)

Christmas Eve service and cards.

The Christmas Eve service was good, but packed solid. I can't imagine how it will get MORE full for 5pm or 7pm, though the 9pm and 11pm services should be less full since they are after "normal" kid bedtimes. Yikes!

We received four more Christmas cards in the mail today, including ones from lotsofjoy and irishphoenix711 - thank you, dearies!