Ahh! Christmas is almost here?!

This morning the kids put up another ornament on our advent calendar and it was then that I realized there were just 2 weeks until Christmas. Crap! I know, I shouldn't say "crap" in the same sentence as "Christmas", that's why I put a period and made the "crap" it's own sentence.
Anyway, the anxiety I feel as Christmas looms ever closer is that I still have sooo much to get done before we celebrate the birthday of our Dear Lord. We just got our tree up yesterday and my WONDERFUL mother-in-law decorated it for me while she babysat the kids. Tripp and I went to a Christmas party. Doesn't it look so pretty?I didn't put up a tree last year because we were living with my in-laws. So the last time we had a tree we were still living in Vancouver. I love all the ornaments on our tree. A lot of them are from when I was growing up. My mom gave me a huge box of our family ornaments several years ago. There's also ornaments we've added since beginning our family 8 1/2 years ago. I just love to look at it. It makes me happy.

A couple of years ago, my dad and stepmom gave us a train to put around our tree. This is something Tripp wanted so bad when he was a little boy. It was so sweet to watch him and Casey put it together and then watch it go around the tree.

I still have some decorations to put up around the house. They are currently piled on my dining room table.I have a pile of our family Christmas pictures that I need to send off, first I need to write our Christmas letter to stick in with the picture. And, I should've ordered more pictures. I only got 30 and after going through my address book I realized it wasn't enough. Dang it.

Something else I still need to do is finish the calendar I make every year as Christmas presents. I fear that it's already too late to have them here by Christmas. I'm hoping that since I'm doing it through Costco, I can just pick it up, rather than wait on having it shipped.

My list of things to do goes on, but they aren't related to Christmas, so I'll spare you. I feel overwhelmed thinking about it. Thank goodness for blog-venting! But really, I should stop blogging and get some things done! It's just kinda hard with a clingy 17 month old who is currently sitting in my lap as I type this. I have to hit backspace every so often because she slaps the keyboard!

Is anyone else feeling the pressure like me?