It's Begininng to Look Like Christmas....

On December 1st our Tree of Thanksgiving turned into our Christmas tree! And our house started looking just like our favorite storybook sounds....

..."And the stockings were hung by the chimney with care...."

Matty Moo would sit and look at the tree and the fun snowmen underneath.... both of them were pretty good about looking or poking but NOT taking the fun stuff off the tree... I had to remind them MORE than once to leave stuff alone!

As you can tell, mom didn't really work hard to make it not tempting.... all this stuff looks like too much fun to just leave it alone!

Look .... do you see what I see.... look close in MY stocking!!!

Yup! On December 1st ... the Elf from the Shelf returned to our house! It was so much fun to hunt for him each day to see where he was hiding... we love Bernard and it's always sad to see him disappear on the 24th... But since Jesus' birthday is on the 25th... we don't need Bernard around to remind us to be good in anticipation of Christmas!