Merry Christmas Week!

I'm listening to Glee Christmas (love it!) with the Christmas tree lights on, Christmas candles burning and pretty much all things Christmas this morning ... and yes, I'm on Christmas vacay because it's calm & quiet (other than Torie cleaning & getting the basement ready for stereo/tv/wii/etc install today and carpet tomorrow...yay...the basement is almost finished! Merry Christmas to us!) ... anyway, my point to this post is that I love Christmas music so much that I start listening pretty early and this year I noticed as I was listening on the radio I was just focusing on the basic holiday tunes (It's the Holiday Season ... a fam fave - you should see my brother Eric do a lip sync rendition complete with trench coat & fedora ... Baby, it's cold outside .... I'll be home for Christmas (always bring tears because it makes me think of my mom ... her home was always so home-y & especially @ Christmas) and then @ church we sang Away in a Manger and it hit me (a big reminder) to remember what Christmas is all about and why we celebrate and that I should be so thankful that Jesus was born and came to save us. My mom was definitely a big reminder of Christmas and pretty much her life in general ... so when I hear O Holy Night or Angels we have heard on High ... it's like a sweet reminder from my mom. So Merry Christmas to you mom and to all my family & friends! My cup runneth over!