december daily

one of my favorite artists in the scrapbooking world has a challenge project up on her blog. she calls it her december daily album. this very talented girl pre-makes a mini album, using christmas and holiday paper, embellishments, etc. that she has been collecting throughout the year, and scraps left from other projects still laying around. she numbers the pages 1-25 and then for each day from december 1st through christmas she takes pictures and journals something that she and/or her family did to celebrate the season.
i have been so busy lately, that i haven't had time to do much scrapbooking, but i have really been trying to accomplish this project. i think by doing it i may make up for the fact that i didn't post a picture every day like i started doing at the beginning of the year. (okay, so i won't make up for it, but it will still be a great project to look back on.)
to keep my thoughts in one place i figured i would journal here and then grab it when i was ready to put it in the album.
i started the album after thanksgiving dinner last week. i've got the right number of pages, and just came home from archiver's with a sticker sheet of numbers 1-25. i'm starting simple, plain, unembellished...and then when i add the journaling and the pictures i'll add a little more to it.

so for my december 1st entry...
i wanted to recount all the things we have done up til now to begin celebrating christmas...
*todd showed the kids the movie "The Santa Clause". when it was finished x said..."i want to go to the mall and see santa claus and sit on his lap" - jaw hit floor! in all his 6 years he has never ever wanted to talk to santa claus. watching him from the railing over his little mall set up was enough for him. monday the 23rd we went to the mall and c sat on his lap and x stood next to him and gave him a high five. actually, gave him close to 10 high fives by the time they were done talking. c asked for "Toy Story". really? c, we already have that movie. "i know, i just want it!" and x asked for "a georgia bulldog football uniform". to which he received high fives from santa. later when we asked him about the georgia request he said "i just panicked." i did not get any pictures....grrr arrrh! i had my camera, but the requirment was that you purchase one of their package sheets to take my own pictures. one of their sheets was $24. i should have just done it. there will never be another first...

*todd put up the tree on monday before thanksgiving, because "i'm off work that day and won't have another chance..." so i endured a whole three very long days of the kids begging to decorate the tree

*bought our annual ornaments at the disney store








*watched the macy's thanksgiving day parade and saw santa claus at the end ..."mom, is that the real santa claus? are those real elves?"

*christmas music on the ipod plugged into the speaker system in the living room

*christmas music on two children's mp3 players
- this year's favorites....David Archuletta, especially "Silent Night", Alvin and the Chipmunks, and almost any version of "It's Beginning to Look Alot Like Christmas" (x's other favorite right now"

*x&c helped todd decorate the tree friday night while i was at work

*saturday & sunday we finished decorating. pretty much it is all in the living room. we just don't have any other surfaces in the house that can be taken over with christmas decorations












*sunday, 11/29, after we finished decorating i sat on the couch with x & c and read Santa Mouse








*monday, 11/30 we had family home evening and read a book, This is the Stable. and we put out the empty manger and the hay we could fill it with when we were kind to each other. then, by christmas eve, we should have a manger filled with soft hay for baby jesus to sleep on

*then we finished off f.h.e with eggnog milk shakes and watched "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" on TV

*tonight, 12/1, I had to work, but todd and the kids watched "Rudolph"

here's to a great start on my december daily album!