With list in hand, I'm ready to go to the grocery store. It's always exciting to plan holiday meals.

Though I will be working Christmas Day, the family will be coming to our house for dinner. They are all pulling together to have a Mexican-themed meal. I'm sure it will all be very satisfying! I will enjoy the festivities of Christmas Eve getting off work just in time (though being a little late) for our Christmas Eve service. What a blessing that always is.

I don't enter into all the hustle and bustle of "the season", but my heart enters into the birth of our wonderful Lord and Savior, the true Gift of Christmas.