Christmas Eve Kiss

Amanda and I took this photo together moments after returning from the Christmas Eve service at the United Church.

Have a merry Christmas tomorrow everyone.  Best wishes from the Kissing Couple of Grande Prairie!

Happy Christmas Eve Morning!

Happy Christmas Eve Morning!

Today is my favourite day of the year.  I love Christmas Day, Canada Day, and my birthday, but Christmas Eve is the best.  Anticipation for Christmas is at its peak, and all the preparations are over (by necessity, if not reality).  The days are getting longer again, though imperceptibly, and it's hard for me to not be optimistic about the future.  Finally, there's looking forward to New Year's, only a week away.

All that said, there's a certain element of melancholy too.  After all the days and weeks of preparation and anticipation, there's a very real sense of how quickly it will be over.  In 48 hours, Boxing Day will be here, and Christmas will be a very long 364 days away.

So, I think I'll grab a glass of eggnog, maybe turn on some Christmas music, and carry on with gift wrapping or something else.

Merry Christmas everyone, from the Kissing Couple of Grande Prairie!

Wrapping Progress

I finished up some more wrapping tonight.  I wrapped a gift to Amanda from my parents that arrived unwrapped (it came from a company that missed the gift wrap), and a bunch for Amanda's family.  Half of her niece's gifts are done, everything for her sister and brother-in-law is done, and we're down to 12 gifts to wrap.

Hopefully we'll finish that wrapping and our little bit of Christmas baking tomorrow morning and afternoon before we have supper and then go to a Christmas Eve church service.  Then it'll be a quiet Christmas Eve together.  Just the two of us.  :-) And then the next day will be about family -- opening gifts with my family over Skype, and then going to Amanda's parent's house for the afternoon.

Christmas is just about here, and we're just about done.  All that's left is to enjoy it. And we intend to!