It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Inside and out.
The first good snowfall left everything white & beautiful.
The gifts are starting to accumulate on every available flat surface and in every closet. Now comes the hard part: finding them all to wrap & give! It seems that I always manage to miss one or two.

I was nervous about choosing clothes all by myself this year for our FACIC recipient. But I think I did alright. Wish I could be there to see her expression when she opens them. Hopefully the things I chose will hit the right chord between "not too plain or too fussy", be warm enough, "cool" enough, fit well enough and be colors she can live with.
Tomorrow I get to wrap them! I LOVE wrapping gifts.

Now, the next big holiday hurdle is the decision whether or not to put up a Christmas tree. I love the tree. It doesn't necessarily have the religious connotation that all the other items do. But I dislike the idea of cutting down a perfectly good tree that serves as shelter for birds and other critters just for me to display for 2 weeks. It seems irresponsible and wasteful.
I know, I know: they plant one for every one that's cut. But it still seems wrong. And fake ones are right out. Maybe we should decorate one in the yard with berries and fruit and popcorn for the critters to eat. I shall mull it over. A solution must be found.

In the meantime, the needlework Christmas Tree that my mom made years ago will go up on the wall to serve as a surrogate and give the house a taste of festivity. You know, "Festivus for the rest of us"!!