I just wanted to take a minute and wish everyone a very Merry Christmas! For some reason, I am overloaded with emotion this year. I think I've cried every day this month. I've even cried watching commercials. It's slightly ridiculous! But truly, it's just been a wonderful year and I am so grateful to be blessed with an amazing family and friends. My brother and his wife are expecting their second baby (any day now) and so there is plenty of added excitement and anticipation in the air.

     With that said, my goals for tonight are to:

1)  "not" think about calories 

2)  stay awake so that I can make it to midnight mass

3)  and not eat the cookies I leave out for "Santa"  (this could prove to be the hardest challenge of all) 

We'll see what happens (:

Merry Christmas!