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I love being with family. Nothing compares! :)
crossing my fingers!

I am most looking forward to my husband having some time off from work to spend time together with our DD12. And making orange blossoms!

I am so looking forward to documenting this holiday season differently than I ever have before. I want to focus on the experience more than the events this time!

firstly, I always chuckle when you have a give away and I look at how many people respond. It's 7:45 AM PDT and over 750 people have already responded! wow
I'm looking forward to the house being decorated and all my grown daughters home for Christmas. . . laughter and just being together.

I am looking forward to spending time with my children. I want to help them know the true meaning of Christmas. I have so many fond memories of Christmas from when I was a child. I am a single mom, so I try to work extra hard to make up for the absence of their father. We are still a family, and I want them to feel that!
Paula H.
Erie, PA

I am looking forward to seeing family members that I haven't been able to see that much this year. I also really love the whole spirit of giving and making gifts for others.

I can't wait to see family. At this time we all get together at one place (people fly from everywhere) and spend such happy times...oh, and take great pictures for the scrapbook of course!

I am looking forward to decorating my newly redecorated house and see each event through the eyes of two little grandsons.....if we pay attention to those guys we won't miss a thing, it is important to slow down and a little Christmas book is good for getting us to take the time to focus and snap a pic and journal a quick impression!
Donna

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This holiday season, I am looking forward to the wonder of Santa Claus as seen through a child's eyes. My kids are 4 and 2. And while I know that the holidays are about so much more than a jolly old man, I also know that I only have a few years with true believers. I am really looking forward to sharing it with them!

I just moved to nw Minnesota and I can't wait to go home to Oklahoma see my family.

I'm looking forward to a new Nutcracker production by Alberta Ballet (in which my youngest daughter is performing) AND I'm looking forward to my oldest daughter coming home for Christmas (after her performances with Ballet Austin)!

As my children have gotten older then take turns reading "The Night Before Christmas" on Christmas Eve. The kids always open a new pair of PJs, change their clothes, put out cookies and we sit down to listen to them read. I take pictures of them and every year I print the picture with text written on it (names and years) and add it to a cute envelope that I created. It is so much fun to see how much the kids have changed over the year and it is also a GREAT way to keep track of who read the book last year.
Love the look of your new christmas book.
De Anne B.
Arvada, CO

spending time with my family, drinking hot cocoa by the fire, making handmade gifts, Christmas music... now I'm actually starting to get excited for the holidays!

I am looking forward to baking cookies with my girls. I always look forward to spending time with family that we maybe don't get to see other than at Christmas time.
Crystal
Fountain, MN

Last year we spent Christmas in India, taking care of my dad's last rites. I look forward to finding joy in the little things of the season, snowfalls, icicles, cookie exchanges, wrapping gifts and making cards! I'm also looking forward to starting an album with my little girls K&D!

I'm looking forward to my daughter coming home from college. I love having my family all together in our nest!

Decorating and being with family and friends..

I look forward to spending time with my mother, this may be her last Christmas. I am taking on the 25 Days of Christmas project so I can tell the story. Hoping the season will be magical and memorable.

I love Christmas! I love the family time and the smells and the baking. For me, it is the most wonderful time of the year

This Christmas will be one of new traditions. My mother passed away in February (two weeks before my daughter- her first grandchild- was born). My mother was the one who always held Christmas Eve dinner, had us Christmas carol to our bank tellers, chiropractor, and neighbors, and have the big Christmas day gift exchange at their house. This year it is up to me to carry on the torch of being the family hostess and idea planner for Christmas. I am praying that I do just as good a job as Mom did, but I really have some BIG shoes to fill.