Christmas Eve .. Eve

I can’t believe that tomorrow is Christmas Eve already! I swear, I look forward to the eve of Christmas more than the actual day. It’s so much more exciting with the anticipation in the air and gifts to wrap. Yes, gift wrapping! My bedroom closet is filled with hidden gifts in every nook and cranny that are just waiting for some pretty paper. The first few couple of years with the kids we had the gifts wrapped and under the tree as they were purchased. But once they started to “get” the whole Christmas thing, at least the Santa part of it – we haven’t started with trying to explain the religious aspect, I stopped doing that in order to bring more magic into it. I now wait until they have gone to bed on Christmas Eve and then wrap, wrap, wrap, as I am sure many parents do! They leave an empty tree and wake up to a massive amount of excitement. My parents always did the same thing and that is one of my favorite holiday memories. I never knew what I was going to wake up to and I always went to bed with butterflies in my tummy.

So … I’ve been waiting to wrap for so long now that I am all giddy about it. Hopefully I can talk the hubby into helping while we watch the 24 hr marathon of “A Christmas Story”. I even had a dream last night that I wrapped what I thought was everything and then realized a few days later that I somehow missed half a dozen gifts. We then had to do the entire day over again. lol So weird. I’m surprised I didn’t dream about receiving some odd gift like New York Yankees tickets as well. My brain is seriously fried.

I’m also looking forward to getting started on making homemade cinnamon rolls tomorrow for Christmas morning. I need to run out for a couple of last minute items today so I’m fully prepared. I’m thinking I’ll get them started on rising the night before and then throw them in the oven early in the morning. Rolls, coffee and wrapping paper flying everywhere sounds like a great Christmas morning plan.

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