Winter is here

I guess we all have to face it Winter has arrived. Most of you know how much I hate winter and hate the snow, but living in Il you just have to deal with it. Christmas is also approaching, which most you also know is my least favorite holiday of the year. It isn't that I don't like the true meaning of Christmas, but the other stuff that goes along makes it just ridiculous. Plus Christmas is right in the middle of winter. I probably like it a lot better if it was in the summer. Christmas to me is usually about running around from family to family and not spending much time at each house because you have like 4 places to go. Well Jeff and I decided with having Carson that we are not going to do that anymore. Luckily my Grandma Madge has her Christmas early so my mom's family we get to spend all day with a couple weeks before Christmas. Then Jeff and I made the decision that one year Christmas Eve we spend with his family and Christmas with mine, and then we switch the next year. Then who ever gets us on Christmas day doesn't get us on Thanksgiving. So we will spend Thanksgiving every other year with our families. We just decided that is to much running around with having a little one. Christmas morning we will spend at our house just the four of us. It will be so nice this year not having to get up and run to someones house. It will be Carson's first Christmas. She isn't getting much from us just a couple of gifts. She really doesn't even know it is Christmas anyway. In the future she will get more, but only one present comes from Santa the rest is from Jeff and I. That is a rule Jeff and I made. It will teach her that Santa has so many children to give to we shouldn't ask him for to much. We were going to go sit on Santa's lap Saturday in Glasford, but the breakfast times were either to early or to late. So we will just have to find a Santa somewhere else.