December is flying by!

Wow, I can't believe that it's already December 18th! How does this month fly by so quickly? There is always so much that I want to do in December and I never have time to do it all. :-( This week we've been busy with our usual daily things: work and school. In the evening we get home and I love coming around the corner to our house and seeing it all lit up with Christmas lights. That just makes my day every day! We eat dinner and I go over Libby's homework and she takes a quick bath and then all week we've been having Family Movie Night! We've watched some cute movies and on Tuesday night we watched Elf. I LOVE Elf and even Mr. Grinch (aka Ryan) loves that movie so it's nice to have a Christmas movie that he actually likes. Well, last night was Libby's last night at home until Christmas so she got to choose what we would watch last night and she really wanted to watch Elf again so we did. :-)

This morning Libby was up and eager to get to school because today is their holiday party in class. I kept trying to slow her down because I was sad that after I dropped her off at class I wouldn't see her again until Christmas. This totally sucks. For the first time in her life she won't wake up with me on Christmas morning and I hate it. Talk about a blue Christmas! But once she gets home Christmas day everything will be much better...she'll get to go through her presents and then Christmas evening Ryan's parents are coming over for dinner so I have a lot to look forward to...it's just Christmas Eve (my FAVORITE day of the year) and Christmas morning that I'm dreading.

Speaking of dreading...tomorrow Debs, Karen, and I are going to Strawberry Tea Room (my favorite tea room ever!) for the Farewell Tea. The owner is having to close down the tea room and I couldn't be more sad about it. I just so happened to call her last weekend to make plans for my birthday tea next month and she told me that she was closing down December 23rd. She said that she was all booked and couldn't get us in one last time for tea. I hung up and passed the sad news along to Karen and Debs and then a little later I called back and was able to talk our way into three seats at the farewell tea. We are all three so happy to get to go to Strawberry tomorrow but it's also very sad that it'll be our last time there!!