• My December Daily journal entry will be about finishing making some gifts for my family.
• This picture is my entry for the iHeartFaces Photo Challenge.  Today’s topic was “light”.   Ellie found a sunbeam.
• For “Journal Your Christmas”, today’s journal prompt is all about where we’ll be spending Christmas.  We are always in town at Mike’s folks house on Christmas eve.  We used to go to my mom’s on Christmas day with my family, but in recent years we’ve started a new tradition of meeting the Saturday before Christmas so we can all arrive rested and enjoy the whole day together.  We discovered that trying to cram all our Christmas celebrating into a day and a half was stressful and exhausting for everyone.  This way we get to enjoy each other, spread out the feasting over a few days and breathe.
• 25 Christmas movies.  Mike and I watched “The Search for Santa Paws”.  Suffering from amnesia (after being hit by a New York cab), Santa is separated from his beloved dog, Paws.  Paws is rescued by a couple of orphans who help him reunite with Santa.  This movie had all the ingredients for a real tear-jerker … and it delivered!

Until tomorrow, 

“OH man that was a great nap.  A good sunbeam does wonders for ya!”