The most wonderful time of the year!

I admit, I'm a sucker for the Holiday Season! I love everything about this time of year! The decorations, the music, the weather, and especially the giving (and getting) of gifts!!! I do my best at decorating this tiny place we call home, and wish I could do more. And as much crap as I give New York City, its best time of year is now! The tree at Rock Center (as well as tons of other trees across the city), the ice skating, Macy's windows...it's all just gorgeous! Adam and I this year plan on taking in the holiday train show, a first for us here in the big apple. I guess with a city like NYC, one doesn't really need too many decorations!

This year I'm going to try and celebrate the holidays while wasting as little as possible. This includes recycled holiday cards (this in hopes that those who recieve them will recycle them, but if they don't at least I can rest knowing they were recycled originally!), zero wrapping paper (or if I must, using instead newspaper or paper bags), left over boxes and ribbon (or at least those that other's will want to reuse), and using recylable fillers for boxes that I have to ship.

I also plan on giving to my favorite charities this holiday season. At school my class is organizing 2 seperate drives; one for food to go to City Harvest, and the other a penny drive to buy a toy for Toy's for Tots. Adam and I also plan on purchasing bees and trees from Heifer International in the name of our friends and families! I would highly recommend this fantastic organization if you are looking for a charity to help out this holiday season.

And no holiday season would be complete without spoiling our girls rotten! I'll leave you tonight with a picture of the girls from our last Christmas in our Michigan house. PS: Maggie didn't really love this!! Happy Holidays!!