The Holiday Season

I don't know about your family but we love the holiday season. Unofficially, we start getting into the holiday spirit right after Labor Day weekend. This year we are going to have a bit more time as Taylor isn't playing any winter sports (yes, she's bored silly) and Jared is playing on the middle school basketball team so we won't have his travel basketball games on the weekends.

We start decorating for Christmas the day after Thanksgiving. We typically get the tree that day but this year we had to wait until Sunday due to Jared feeling under the weather on Friday.

We did start a new tradition this year. A town close by always has a Festival of Lights parade. All of the floats are done in Christmas lights. We were invited to a friend's house to have some food and drink before the start of the parade. We then walked about a block over to the parade route and drank hot cider and watched the floats go by. It definitely put us in the holiday spirit.

Here are a few pictures from the parade:

It is snowing here today, well flurries really, but I'm counting it as snow. Puts me in the mood to shop so I am off to do a bit of shopping before heading to the school to help decorate Christmas cookies for the troops with the 7th grade class.

Dora