In the Christmas spirit

I love Christmas time. I am already counting down the days until Christmas... especially Christmas at my house (well... my parents'). They seriously go all out and it looks like a beautiful, classy, christmas house that Santa would live in... and no I dont mean the toy factory! We have a full size Christmas tree in every room except the bathrooms and kitchen (because they wont fit in those rooms). Each tree has a theme and definitely matches the room decor and colors. Go figure with my interior decorator mother who is also a perfectionist. Our house smells of cinnamon and cider starting from about mid-November to end of January and I love it! She never has the will to take them down right at New Years or put them up right at Christmas because it takes too much work to transform the house for her not to enjoy it! So Christmas is really about 2 1/2 months long at my house. I dont know how to explain it but theres nothing more comforting to me than being at home for the holidays. This year will be a little more sentimental. It will be the last Christmas the its the four of us! Of course Tim will open presents with us Christmas morning but its the last time that Courtney and I will open up Christmas gifts from Santa together at my parents. Its seems like only yesterday that we opened gifts up in our old small den when she got a Miss America set and I got a bowling set for Christmas (along with a ton of other amazing gifts that my parents always bless us with). How funny that those gifts match our personalities so well! Santa was always really good about that... about making sure that we got gifts that we wanted and that were unique to us. My parents really made the holidays special for us in more ways than one and this Christmas.. I just feel especially blessed. God is good!