right now

It's snowing outside.

Justin is at a presidency meeting.

Audrey isn't sleeping- I can hear her singing upstairs. So much for an after church nap.

My house looks like Santa's workshop. We've been busy little elves here, painting, sewing, gluing, cutting. It's surprising how much I've enjoyed the challenge of making almost all our gifts and how excited I am to see people's reactions when I give them. At the beginning of the year I'd thought about opening an etsy shop and then had decided against it. Now, looking at my finished products, I'm wondering about it again.

Justin told me today that he's thinking of having the scout camp-out in January here at our house. And I looked around at my small living room and tried to picture 6 big, loud, hungry teen aged boys here and got really nervous. Where will we put them? And then I thought- it will be fun, bring it on.

It's my month to do sharing time in Primary. My first time didn't go as smoothly as I'd planned today.

I'm listening to the 'Up' soundtrack on itunes. I love it. I almost cry every time the music slows on track number three, the part in the movie when Carl and Emmie find out they won't be having any children- for obvious reasons.

I found out how to make bib necklaces on Friday and hurried to make one- I'm kind of in love with it. Justin doesn't understand the trend but I told him that was okay, cause I knew who would understand and be just as excited as I was- Lyric and Ariane and Beth. What do you think?

I love being in Primary at Christmas time. How did I forget about all the great Christmas songs that they have the kids sing this time of year? 'Picture a Christmas'? 'Christmas Bells are Ringing'? Classic. I love sitting in there and singing along.

We have plans to make hot cocoa and watch 'Elf' tonight. I'm excited. And, I'm thinking some oatmeal chocolate chip cookies might be in order. Do I talk too much on here about making cookies? You'd think we make them all the time....oh wait, we do.