It's Official! Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas!

It's official, today is December first and it's the beginning of the end. The end of the year maybe, but today is the beginning of a magical season. Everyone wears their prettiest clothes, we see people we don't see any other time of the year, we bake goodies, gather at parties, and decorate in such a way that all of our childhood memories come flooding back like they happened yesterday. It's also the time of year that even the Scroogiest of scrooges soften up and find some Christmas spirit.

Thanksgiving was wonderful. We spent Thursday with Dave's family and Saturday we did it all over again with friends. One of the high-lights of the weekend for me was playing Pictionary on Saturday night. There were ten of us playing so we picked numbers to make two teams. Mason was one of the ten and played as well as and maybe better than some of us grown-ups. He totally got the idea, guessed only when his team was drawing, and did some pretty great drawings of his own. It occurred to me how special it must have been for him to be up late and playing a game with his parents and their friends. Did you ever get to do that with your parents? When you were five? My family never played games so it never occurred to me that it could happen. I'm so grateful to be part of a happy family raising a child with so much love and friendship everywhere we look.

I've posted some pictures from the Thanksgiving holiday. We had such a good time but there's just too much to share here. Take a look at the pics and let them tell the story. I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and will slow down to see the magic of Christmas all around you!

Today's motivator: Christmas is the time of year we find love and charity in our hearts. What would our world be like if we gave of our selves just one day each of the other eleven months of the year? I think we could change the world with this one little act.