The Tree is Up!

Oh boy, are we in the Christmas spirit around here! We are recording Christmas shows, Jocelyn has already learned the words to Jingle Bells, and she wakes up every morning and runs out to the tree and exclaims, "Happy Christmas lights!"

I am extremely impressed with how Jocelyn handled the ornaments and placed them on the tree without any instructions. And I'm even more impressed with how she leaves them alone now that we are down decorating. She even knows that there are presents under the tree for her and doesn't ask to open them.

She says she wants a baby and a backpack for Christmas and she already knows that Mimi is getting her the baby she wants and Aunt Brooke has the backpack covered. I guess we underestimated what she understands when listening to us discuss these things!


I love that our ornaments are more fun than fancy. And I love the older ones that my Dad handed down to me...the Purdue one always gets a front spot. Jocelyn has 4 or 5 "Babies 1st Christmas" ones, and I have a few handmade ones from my previous students that I will always cherish.

It's special to me that I have the nativity set that both myself and my Dad decades before me used to lay in front of on our bellys and look at as a children. And now look who is doing the same thing...

"HAPPY CHRISTMAS LIGHTS!"