…the gifts are ordered, the wreath is hanging on the door.  Christmas cards have begun to fill our mailboxes and the first batch of cookies have already been devoured.

But our Christmas photo is elusive.  I lost them all, you see.  Everything from this year.

So I’m scrambling a bit, trying to capture my boys in a quick posed shot, not the beach-walking or fun-on-vacation or family-afternoon-at-the-park kind of photo I’m partial to.  It’s hard.

But the tree is lovely and the snow is beautiful and I’m very thankful for my family, even if I don’t have the pictures to prove it.

And our puppy is almost 10 months old already.  How can such a lucky girl complain?

How about you?  What makes you smile this time of year?