blissful.

I am amazed. Utterly, wonderfully amazed.

A) It's Christmas Eve which, inevitably, brings out the childlike wonder in me.

B) It SNOWED all day long! Texas born and raised, this is a true Christmas miracle. Everywhere I look it is white. We had an actual, legitimate snowball fight today. And Sarah and I got destroyed.

I love Christmas. I love it with all of my heart. And for simple reasons. For strange family traditions like playing Mary and the Camel (a semi-disturbingly strange competition that Sarah and I have to see who can carry Austin to further), like baking in the kitchen, like opening Christmas pajamas on Christmas Eve (which of course match the sisters and mom), like playing indoor soccer in the hallway with a tennis ball, like opening my grandmother's re-gifted Christmas present and pretending not to recognize it from 3 years ago. I LOVE the holidays.

And I hope I always will. I hope I never grow hardened to the mystery of the holiday.