I am great at procrastinating.  Really, I am.  Some might say that I have elevated it to an art form.  I am always the parent scrambling to get a costume right before Halloween or putting up the holiday decorations right up until the actual holiday.

But this year?  I am turning over a new leaf.  I have already ordered new Christmas stockings for my kids.  I have been wanting to do this for a few years, the stockings we currently have were cheap and are literally falling apart.  But every year I wait until it is too late to get it done.  This year I am ready.  They are embroidered with their names and everything. 

Even though I have boxes of Christmas decorations still packed from our move, most of them are so old and dusty (specifically thinking of the miles of faux garland I have) that I really want to replace them.   I also don’t need half (a quarter?) as many decorations since this house is much more, shall we say, cozy than our last house. 

I am getting excited to decorate a new house for the holidays and planning crafts to do with the kids.

I have been browsing through the Martha Stewart website.  I love that website.  In spite of all evidence to the contrary, it makes me feel as though with some paper, a little grosgrain ribbon, and a glue gun I too can conquer the world.   Or at least recreate it in miniature.

What?  What’s that you say?  There are two more holidays between now and then?  I suppose sticking my fingers in my ears and saying, “LA LA LA I can’t hear you,” would not be keeping with my newly turned over leaf.

I guess I had better start looking at Halloween and Thanksgiving ideas first…