Today is Christmas Eve!

Can't sleep again! This is fun to do though! Not much in the way of renos lately....except for painting. I started in the kitchen and family room. The kitchen and family room each have two coats of paint and the family room has the trim done as well. I got one coat of paint in the back hall and then put it all on hold for two reasons. One was that I have been working a lot. I subbed several days this past two months and just did not have the energy to paint when I got home from school. The other is that our oldest daughter finally bought a condo in downtown Edmonton and we have been busy helping her move. We painted her condo first and it is still far from finished. She has had all the flooring done and then two weekends ago she rented a U-Haul and we loaded up her things and moved her in. Finally, we can fit a car in the garage after two years of storing her possessions!!! She has a lot to do and I will help her next week after the Christmas Celebrations are over.
I have the whole family over on all holidays but this year it will only be 17 of us. Cabbage rolls, turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, vegetables and salad for the main course. Lots of desserts. I have lots of help as everyone brings something to contribute to the meal. We love having these celebrations at our house and have done this for the last thirty years.
Tonight we will go to church....then come home and have snacks. When our kids were small they got to open one present on Christmas Eve. Jim and I wish that we had followed my Dad's Norwegian tradition of opening all of the gifts on Christmas Eve and then we could sleep in on Christmas morning. Oh, well....I have to get up to put in the large turkey anyway.
What is it with turkeys?? You have a really hard time getting the 25 pounders these days. It is the most stressful part of any holiday for me. I think we will now be ahead of the game however.......we have a 28 pounder bought for Easter already. We found it at Save On Foods today. It would be useless for anyone for Christmas.....it would never thaw in time and you couldn't fit it in a microwave! Now we are set!
I have enjoyed getting ready for Christmas this year! Hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy 2011!!!

Kitten in a Tree {Eddy}