Its beginning...

we are running out of space to store brown boxes from the north pole aka amazon

the tree has been trimmed and re-trimmed and re-trimmed

and the little munchkins are on a constant sugar high from goodies delivered to the door step. 

so i guess that means christmas is just around the corner. 

HOOOORAY!

I HEART CHRISTMAS

the magic of christmas is real

so i'm hoping that the combined 14 years of bad luck that was risked while taking this picture

is twinkled away somehow. 

because since the addition of numero tres

 we really don't need the universe or superstition breaking karma or anything else working against us.

we are doing just fine on our own,

we've got the up hill battle thing covered around here. 

and even as i reflect on the rat race of a day its been

i can't help but feel gratitude for the 3 little boys that are mine,

that i get to spend christmas with every year

and every other day of the year.

and as cliche as it sounds, they really are the best little gifts i could have ever hoped for... 

...although their tree decorating skills are not quiet up to snuff.

luckily i've refined mine over the last 30 or "so" years

since my own mom had to play the role of 

magic tree fixing fairy in the wee hours of the night. 

here's to hoping that it doesn't come down on top of one of them 

while they attempt to rearrange it for the 73rd time. 

CHEERS!