Thanks for all the encouragement, everyone!  I guess I will keep blathering on despite my reservations about not providing my readers with a quality product.  I got some redonkulous number of hits yesterday on my gingerbread post.  By the way, I will NOT be repeating the gingerbread experience this year.  Once was enough, thank you very much.  I might be persuaded to make sugar cookies, though, if my kids beg enough.

So far my Christmas decorating has consisted of helping put up the fake tree, plopping two pointsettias in the entryway and dumping a wreath on the front porch (couldn’t find the wreath hanger).  We really do have to put up some lights outside.  FrogGirl is absolutely scandalized that we haven’t done that yet.  She is all about the holiday spirit, decorating, baking, etc.  I sense that I am a huge disappointment to her.  A proper mother would be wearing holiday sweaters throughout the month of December and providing after-school snacks of homemade eggnog and gingerbread man cookies.

I figure I am just setting the bar low, so that she can easily exceed my performance when she’s an adult.

Now I am going to get out the ornaments so the kids can decorate the tree while I take a nap.  You may think I’m kidding, but I’m not.