Day 334-O Tannenbaum!

Day 333-Jack Frost Nipping at Your Nose

I started decorating for Christmas today while watching Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus and Jack Frost. Tree is up, but there are no decorations on it yet.

Day 332-Pandora's Box . . . of MUSIC!

I just started using Pandora again, and they have this cool thing now where you can shuffle between stations. So at work I have been shuffling between my Jon Schmidt (Holiday) station, my Josh Groban (Holiday) station, and my Casper (Film score) station. Pretty relaxing stuff.

Day 331-Soups, Salads, and Sundays

Neil reported on his mission today and after church today we had soup! Six kinds of soup!

I made this awesome signs, with help from the bro-in-law:
Neil with the bro-in-laws parents. (My goal was to get a picture of him with everyone, but this is the only picture I got.)

Day 330-Chop, Chop, Chop

Spent the afternoon chopping up vegetables and helping my mom make different kinds of soup for my brother's homecoming reception tomorrow.

This is the corn chowder:

Also made "turkey" noodle soup, gnocchi soup, and will make stew, 5 can soup, and chili.

Day 329-Yes, Virginia

Now that Thanksgiving is over, I have started on with Christmas!! Listening to Christmas music, and watching Christmas movies! Speaking of Christmas movies, one of my favorites from when I was a kid was Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus (1974), based on this editorial from 1897 in The Sun:

After some searching I was able to find it on DVD!!

I think I might use this letter when my kids ask me about the veracity of Santa Claus.

Day 328-Thanksgiving