Can You Feel the Season Yet?

Only thirteen days left til Christmas morning and I don't even have all of the gifts that I need to give! Is anyone else feeling the stress of Christmas yet or is it just me?

This past week Christmas has attacked my house, starting with the arrival of The Box from my Aunt Sharon

The Box is a reoccurring Christmas gift from my father's  Cool Aunt Sharon. It comes every year, just a few weeks before Christmas and it is a huge deal around my house. The Box arrives and every family member is called to be informed of its arrival...

...because it is filled with an incredibly large amount of chocolate, both cheap and expensive. This year my aunt surprised us with  an expensive cheese, sausage and cracker box. Very tasty indeed.

 A few days after the arrival of The Box, we transformed our living room into a magical present unwrapping area. This entire ritual of Christmas involved dragging the tree out of the attack, a chocolate war with the leftover candy from The Box (Started by my Over-fifty-father) and a game to see who could decorate the tree best by throwing the ornaments onto the tree from across the room.

Decorating the tree always starts with assembly and lights (Because who wants a real tree? Not us sickly people. Allergies, man).

Bethy was not amused by my lack of enthusiastic help while she put up the lights.

Though we managed to get all the lights on the tree, we appreciated when all the lights actually turned on.

 Finally, Rachael got home and that is when the real decorating began.

We like lace and white lights. We also like to get adventurous while decorating.

Which includes wrapping the lights around ourselves and dancing like we know how.

Yeah, we are adventurous.

Ah, beautiful. Don't you think?

So, we decorated and there are actually some presents under the tree! Wow, Christmas is almost here, not to mention New Years is right around the corner! Are you ready? All I can ask is...

Can you feel the season yet?