The count down has begun. There are only 27 more days until Christmas, for some that’s only 2 pay days away, how ready are you??

I have to admit, for the very first time in years..... in fact I would have to say in my lifetime I am 98% ready for Christmas. I have two things left to purchase a ham (or turkey) for dinner and Greg’s gift. I know what I want to get him but I’m having a problem getting it. I will have to hunt a little harder and I hope with all my fingers and toes crossed that I will be able to find that one thing soon.

But the house is almost ready, the tree has been up for some time now as Gregory was soooo excited to get things set up and lit up! We bought a new Christmas tree this year as I had a really old Charlie Brown tree... no joke... if you actually saw it you would think it came from the cartoons. It was the most ugly artificial tree that money could buy. Why did I own it... well I was 19 years old.....broke and Zellers had a sale. Does that say enough for you??

So the tree is decorated, so far so good with the cats staying away from it. Only one ornament has been knocked off to date.... but I have see the tree sway a few times now. I suppose that the cats are getting a little board being in the house so they like to chase each other around and around and around. But when eight legs are running at 25 mph on hard wood floor with it’s kind of hard to get a good grip  on the shinny floors with those sharp claws to do a quick 180-degree turn. So that 180 usually turn into a 90-dgree turn with a circle around the tree, up over the sofa arm, quick across the cushions, a corner of the coffee table and a leap back down the hall way for the real quick get away. Left in the flying cat hair is the twirling and tinkling of Christmas ornaments on the tree.

The presents are mostly wrapped, only a few more left to go but they should be done very soon. If I don’t Gregory darling could get a little snoopy and start searching through bags. Fortunately he won’t find his gift, as stated before I don’t have it, but he runs the risk of finding out the name of the family member I have for Christmas this year. We do a sort of ‘Secret Santa’ thing in my family. At Thanksgiving we draw names and we don’t tell who we have until we exchange gifts. And we can’t draw our spouse, so it makes it a little fun and it keeps a little bit of surprise and suspense in Christmas. So I gotta get that all wrapped.