It's beginning today

Today is our very first Christmas celebration of the year. The kids have been looking forward to this ever since my grandmother mentioned at Thanksgiving that we'd all be together again in just over three weeks. The kids are definitely excited, and we are all looking forward to seeing cousins we haven't seen since July (and in some cases, since last January)! There is a chance that one cousin has a hockey game today. It was going to to depend upon whether they won or lost yesterday and I don't know how they did. Even if they do play, they'll be there later in the day. I'm so grateful, so very grateful, that we get together like this and that my kids get to know family. I hope we always have this!