One snowy day, one baking day and still not ready for Christmas

It's been a busy few weeks in the BC Reids household. Fall is still with us yet a couple weeks ago it looked like full on winter (well, as wintery as the lower mainland can get) The snow hung around for a day or two then was washed away by a warm front and buckets of rain (as is the custom here). Carlon was able to get out and enjoy throwing snowballs at daddy and getting purple hands because he refuses to wear mitts. Not long after that we had our annual Tinck Christmas baking day. We started it about 10 years ago when my gramma Clinch would still come to stay with us at Christmas. Alas, she has grown too elderly for such a trip so we make the day with just us girls (mom too) and Rayna and Jenna if they want to help out and we do more in 6 hours of a Saturday than most people do on a regular work day. All the goodies are split equally and we don't have to bake another thing the rest of the month. Bonus? We have a Super time in the process.

Now having said all that, I'm still not ready for Christmas. Lots of shopping still and packages to put together. Church events to go to and family events to bring back the old days. Looking forward to it all and so thankful that I'm not experiencing it all from a hospital bed this time around. As I grow bigger with this baby and it's slowing me down I've managed to get past the milestone gestation that landed me on bedrest with Carlon. I think that could be the best Christmas present I could get this year!