Christmastime is Here
I must say this is my favorite time of year. I have loved Christmas my whole life. No matter the situation it brought a smile to my heart. As a kid I loved singing Christmas carols and I would dance around with my dolls pretending to be Mary. I loved every aspect of Santa, up at 4am sneaking out to peek. I actually was a firm believer until I was 12 and it was Christmas Eve and I had an older sister who spilled the beans....thanks Jen :) As a teenager my focus became finding gifts for the friends or boyfriend, midnight mass if I could stay up that late, I am NOT a night person. Watching all my siblings unwrap presents with me and as I got older the excitement of the older siblings coming home to visit. Big family meals, we were Italian, putting on our fancy clothes to visit relatives. Then it turned into a very pregnant Christmas in 1997, as my first born was almost here, a quiet year where I was on bed rest only weeks after almost d...