It's begining to look a lot like Christmas......

Snow started falling late Sunday afternoon here in Green Bay and as I look out the window right now, it looks like a scene from a Christmas card. Snow is falling and there is a 5 inch blanket of the fluffy white stuff on the ground. My favorite time of year is here! I LOVE Christmas. Always have, always will. I can thank my Mom for that. (Dad too... but mostly Mom). My Mom is the force behind all of our Christmas traditions. As a child, every day in December we would anxiously pull a card out of the advent calendar to see what we would be doing that day to get ready for Christmas. From making paper rings, as a count down to the big day, for each of our rooms, baking the various traditional goodies, getting the tree & decorating, to Nuts & Bolts and making Root beer (thanks Dad!!). Every day of the month of December is filled with memories of my childhood and my family. Growing up we always made fruit cake on November 11th (Remembrance Day) and would cut the first cake & have apple cider after purchasing the Christmas tree. I hate both fruit cake and apple cider, but I have to admit that every year after we buy the tree it always feels like something is missing because we don't have the fruit cake & cider. With the addition of our sweet Sadie to our family this year, more then ever, I'm thinking about all those traditions and memories I had as a child. I can't wait to do all the things that my parents did with us, with her!



Turn up your speakers and listen to some of my favorite Christmas songs!