good grief!

It's been way too long since I blogged! I'm so behind on reading other people's blogs too - sorry, you guys. I'll get with it one of these days!

Christmas cards are done - whew! I made 87 this year! Now I just have to print the labels and get them mailed off. I also have to decide if I'm going to include a little letter inside - I wrote something already, but I haven't decided if I'm going to use it. We'll see. Brian is working late tonight and I'm working on things for Christmas. I'm WAY behind this year! I usually have all my shopping done and mostly wrapped and the cards mailed by now! But not this year. Christmas snuck up on me!

Well, our decorations are all up. I put up my snowman tree this year. Since we didn't put it up last year, I had forgotten about some of the ornaments. It's so fun getting them all out! And the Star Wars tree is up, in all its glory! :-D The exterminator was impressed by it when he came this morning. :-D And the music tree is up. That makes three, plus two smaller trees (I think one is like 4' and the other is about 2.5') on the front porch, a small tree in the bedroom, and a small tree on top of the armoire. Oh, and the ceramic tree, but that doesn't really count. :-D How many is that - 7? Good grief. I'm addicted to Christmas! And the craziest thing is, we didn't even put up our "family" tree this year, and that's the biggest of them all! It's 8', I think, and the snowman tree is 7' and the Star wars tree is 6'. If you lined all our trees up in a row, it would look like a tree version of the Von Trapps!!!!

OK, so we've got like 5 or 6 gifts so far. We've got so much shopping to do still! I did some shopping online this morning, though. There's way too much to do in the less-than-two-weeks we have left before we leave!! Oh my goodness, what have I been doing for the last several months????

We went to the choir program at the Presbyterian Church last night. (The church where I worked for awhile.) It was great! I'm so glad we went and heard the wonderful choir and saw everyone.

Oh, and we went to see Marc Broussard at the Hard Rock Live on Thursday night. He was as awesome as ever, but the people around us were SO RUDE!!!! They kept talking and talking - which was really YELLING, so they could be heard over the music. WHY, I ask you, do people buy tickets to a concert and then talk to their friends the whole time? They can talk to their friends for free ANYTIME! :-( But Marc was awesome. :-D

We got our first Christmas card of the season today. It was from the Herzogs, our friends from NY. I actually taught piano to their two boys, Luke and Brian, and I also taught their dad, Rob! AND, Rob was our dentist! They were some of my very favorite students ever. They still are, I guess. Now they have another adorable baby boy! I miss them. I miss all of my friends and students from NY! If I lived there, it would be about time for the Christmas recital!

Well, I better get to work on this stuff. And put some more laundry in. At least the house is in pretty good shape! Now the goal is to keep it that way so I won't have to worry about a ton of cleaning! Hope everyone is having a great holiday season so far.