Christmas already?!

Can it be that Christmas is only 26 days away! I"m not ready in the least and yet here I am spending 3 hours on the computer- some of it legit and some just plain old wasting time! Yes I'm avoiding that PILE of christmas decorations sitting in the family room. It's all waiting there for me to find places for it to live for the next month. Trying to turn the house into a Winter Wonderland is a lot of work! Yet I'm determined to make my children's childhoods magical and memorable. Motherhood sure does produce a lot of guilt. Nothing like "mom-guilt" to get your butt in gear and get the job done. I wonder what would get done if I didn't experience mom-guilt. Probably about half as much :) Well, this is my first post in years cause I kinda forgot that I had made a blog so many years ago but then I was reminded by another mom on the school yard playground about how valuable it is. It's kinda like a virtual scrapbook/journal of our lives on this planet. Another mom-guilt thing. Will my boys ever look at this or even care what I wrote about- who knows? there are no guarantees. Do they know how much I love them and how many things I do out of that love for them. I know that they will have no idea what its all about until they have kids of their own. I know I didn't- thanks mom and dad for all you did/do for me. I now get the whole idea of it (or least part of it) It's a big job being someone's parents- a big job that never ends until the day you die. I think that's why God designed families- so we can get a taste of the love/pain/joy/ heartbreak that He goes through with each of us as His children. I have a much clearer understanding of God now that I am a parent.