“Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!”

We’re celebrating Christmas here tomorrow with some family, including my sister and her husband who are driving to NY tomorrow morning. (They both had to work today, and they’re celebrating Christmas Eve with his mother and sister in Maryland.) All my presents are wrapped, though not yet under the tree. Now I’m just waiting on those visions of sugar-plums and their famous dance moves.

I have to say, I wasn’t exactly feeling the Christmas spirit until this week. Then my vacation started, and we hung the lights outside, and we had a pretty heavy snowfall — maybe 14 inches — and I started thinking, y’know, not all Christmas songs are terrible, especially when it’s actually Christmas. And then I put up the tree yesterday — with my sister not yet home, it was pretty much left to me alone — and we started getting ready for tomorrow. I’m looking forward to it.