Yes, I am super excited for Christmas, always am! This year will be extra-special because it's Lyra's first Christmas.

I always wait till the weekend after Thanksgiving to put up the tree (to me that is waiting...), and of course by Christmas it looks a bit raggedy from the cats variously pulling down ornaments/sitting in the tree. We go on a train ride every year (though last year we went to the Nutcracker Ballet instead), and this year we will be going up Pike's Peak again on the cog. We really don't do presents for the adults- last year we did a gift exchange (we put our names in a hat and spent $20 on the person we got and didn't reveal who it was till we exchanged gifts) that was fun so we will likely do it again this year (it is just us, my mom, and my brother's family usually). But, I really love buying gifts for the kids. And this year my mom will be here for 10 days- at Christmas AND New Year's!!

So yes, I'm excited too!