• My December Daily journal entry will be about wrapping gifts and getting ready for Christmas at my mom’s.
• This picture is my entry for the iHeartFaces Photo Challenge.  Today’s topic was “wrapped”.   All wrapped and ready to go.
• For “Journal Your Christmas”, today’s journal prompt is all about the reality of Christmas.  Where we find ourselves right now.  So with that in mind…

  Currently, I’m
  sipping hot cocoa with marshmallows
  so excited to see my nieces and nephews over Christmas
  hearing the soft snores of doggies sleeping
  finding it hard to believe that Christmas is almost here
  appreciating how wonderful my husband is
  reading “Harry Potter:  Prisoner of Azkaban”
  beginning to start my list of goals for 2013
  lighting candles around the house
  listening to Mike practice his trombone for our Christmas eve service
  making knitted gifts
  prepping all the ingredients for Yorkshire puddings

• 25 Christmas movies.  Mike and I had to make a last minute substitution because “A Charlie Brown Christmas” is on a very long wait with Netflix and won’t make it in time.  A couple of observations:  In 1988, gasoline was 75 cents a gallon in Los Angeles and little did they know when they were discussing the ingredients of Twinkies that 24 years later they would be gone forever (maybe some of those 24-year-old Twinkies are still good).  All in all, a really good Christmas movie.  Maybe it should be put on our permanent list?

Until tomorrow, 

“Are our gifts in that pile?”