keen for Christmas

Some snow finally fell yesterday morning in Moncton and it's like a light went on inside my Christmas self; I officially have the Christmas spirit. In keeping with that spirit I drove by our local Christmas tree lot with the kids and they're currently setting up. They look like they'll meet my scheduled decoration date. We have a couple weekend birthdays on the island, so we're hitting that stand this Friday in order to be ready for a Saturday morning decoration extravaganza! Just in time for December and 25 days of Joyeux Noel. I'm collecting a list of Christmas must-do activities and can hardly wait to start ticking them off.

I think I'm excited because the kids are at the perfect age in order to enjoy all the magic of the season. I put up the outdoor lights last night while they played in the snow. It was perfection. Perfection however, isn't how I would describe Elliott's earlier first visit the mall Santa. He took a good long look and then trucked off to hide behind a column - crouched down in the fetal position. Parent Warning - I took the liberty of explaining to him that this wasn't the real Santa. Just a sort of unfriendly helper that gets his photo taken with the kids. His response, "Good. Why didn't he even say hello to me?" Man kids are in-tune, I didn't like the look of him either.

We are also practicing all the kids' English Christmas carols for next month's Concert. The French ones remain unrecognizable. I for one, can not wait. As an added Concert bonus Kate has been taking ballet lessons at school and will be performing that evening.

Let's get merry!

xo CAKE and a few dozen cookies