It's the most BUSIEST time of the year!

3 days. Christmas is in THREE days. Seriously, where does the time go?! In just a few short days we'll all be ringing in 2019! And then will start all of the New Year's resolutions and goals. But for now, we all run around finishing and preparing for Christmas. It's insane how many things we all can get done this time of year, especially if you have little ones. It seems like everyday you look up there is something else that needs to be done, gifts to be bought, Santa to be seen, travel plans to be made, school parties to prepare for, school Christmas programs to attend, and SO much more. But then you look up, and everyone is home and out of school for Christmas break...gifts are wrapped, plans are made, and groceries are bought. It seems as though then, finally then, can you look around and enjoy how much you've done and how beautiful it all really is this time of year.

It's times of reflections like this, maybe it's the nearing of the year, or me mentally preparing for a new year ahead, that I look back and realize how perfect everything is underneath all of the hustle and bustle and decking the halls. If you look at it all through your children's eyes, they don't see all of the late nights we as parents pull. They don't see the countless hours of shopping, wrapping, moving the elf, and planning behind the scenes. They see their beautifully wrapped gifts under their perfectly decorated tree. And they see their class treat bags placed in their backpacks for their Christmas party at school. And they see their parents taking pictures of them out in the audience at their Christmas program. They don't know how hard we worked to fit it all in for them. They don't know how little sleep and how much caffeine we are requiring to keep our eyes open. They just hop in the car and go. They go to see Santa, and they go to look at Christmas lights, and go to family's houses to celebrate.

Maybe that's the Christmas magic. Maybe it is real. Maybe, just maybe, if we all gave ourselves more credit for all that we get done year in and year out, that then we could realize how this really is the most wonderful time of the year. We'll all blink and we'll be counting down to the New Year, and then kid's will go back to school, and before we know it all of the stress of the holiday's will be a vague memory until this time next year. All of this is everything to me. I'm the worst. I plan too much, and get upset when plans get messed up. I have horrible anxiety anyway, and this time of year just multiplies it for me. I stress over stress before there's even stress to stress about. But then when things get quiet, I look back. I look at pictures of my adorable children's faces, and how genuinely HAPPY they are. I look at events that I spent too much time worrying about, just for them to appear perfect to me now. And when I tuck my kids in at night, I know for sure that everything I'm doing is for a reason. It's for their childhood. When they look back on growing up, they will feel loved. They will know the Christmas magic...which is all this Mama could ever want!

So, until it's over, until the presents are unwrapped, and the tree is down, and the gifts are put away...try to enjoy as much of the magic as possible. Because although this is undoubtedly the most busiest time of the year, it is absolutely the most wonderful time of the year! Merry Christmas from my family to yours!


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