5 days till Christmas

Lets see... cookies to bake and pies to make. 2 holiday parties left, and still haven't done the snowman soup for the guys. I did buy the peppermint sticks, and mini marshmallows. Forgot to get more hot cocoa. I might actually have enough but I'm not sure. I'll check tonight. I STILL need to get dried cranberries so that I can bake the cookie dough I made on Saturday. Today is the last day I think that it will still be good.

Hmm.. need to finish one last scrapbox, and put together a gift to take to the Stone's on Friday. Still have presents to wrap. Lots of them. Too many. Which is a good thing. I like living in the world of "too much" as long as it's not too much bills! LOL I think my mom and I are going to send the boys over to Bread of Life church to watch their version of the Charlie Brown Christmas play so we can get some of these things done. Should work out as long as they are cooperative about going by themselves! Good thing they are just about 14, because we can trust them a little more to do these things on their own. Can't send 8yr olds by themselves you know? Well you could, but you'd get into all sorts of trouble! LOL

My fav blog to follow had sad sad news on it. I don't know the blogger's name but tragedy has struck her little corner of the world and it makes me sad. I don't know if she knows Jesus and that He can help her thru it, so I pray He would surround her with His awesome peace and strength during this time of shock and disarray. I also pray for the victims of the tragedy, that the Lord would show Himself faithful thru it all. So many lessons in life are so hard to go thru. It's good to know that you have someone that you can lean on when life gets tough and that what the world thinks you HAVE to go thru on your own, you don't have to. There is someone who can give you a hope and a purpose. I love that. Some call it a crutch. I call it freedom.

Well I think that's it for now. I'm just working on getting some stuff done for the new year and getting everything together. I'm excited about what 2006 has in store for our family. So many new things are going to happen and change and I can't wait! :) I just have a weird expectation for 2006 I don't think I've ever expected before. Tremendous growth, Tremendous changes are coming. It's weird but really cool! :)

Kisha