I love Christmas! I'm especially loving it this year because "I'll be home for Christmas..." (insert your own music here). Thanks to frequent flyer miles and CTS Christmas break, I'm visiting my family this year for the holidays. It will be 15 months since seeing my family and I can't wait to be with them - especially my nieces and nephews. I have 7 of them and we are planning a huge Auntie Shannon Slumber Party. That is of course, if I bring home waffles.
Recently while on the phone with my 9 year old nephew, Grant, he informed me that it was nice that I was coming home, but if I didn't bring Belgian waffles, I really shouldn't come home. It's always nice to know you are loved for who you are and not for how many waffles made it through customs! We'll see what that kid gets for Christmas this year!!
I like to leave Christmas decorations up for a month, so this week I put up the tree. I am planning a get-together with students & friends soon, so the decorating is for them as well, but I also started listening to Christmas music. I guess it's never too early to begin celebrating Christmas. I love the lights and decor and snowmen, but I love more the fact that if it were not for Jesus coming into this world 2000 years ago, I wouldn't be where I am, and wouldn't have the greatest story ever told to tell to a world that needs the Love of God that was sent to us through Jesus. All this to say - let's start celebrating Christmas in November...and continue it throughout the year.
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