12 Things

I'm watching Top Chef and they're having to create dishes based on "The Twelve Days of Christmas". And since I lack brain cells right now, I thought I'd list twelve things that are, right now, making me happy.

So here they are:

• 12 Christmas gifts (give or take), purchased and ready to wrap. And the shopping is done.
• In 11 days, Michael and I will be here. Alone. Without children.
• 10 candy canes hung in the lower quarter of our Christmas tree... by sweet small hands.
• 9:00 and Nora's actually settled in her bed
• 8 days until Christmas, which we will be spending here, at home, just us, for the first time.
  
• We'll have 7 Ham children in January... but we had a blast spending time with the other six this past weekend in Mississippi.
  
• Nora went for a 6 hour stretch last night... we're getting closer to sleeping through the night!
• 5 little ladybugs all in a row.
  
• It's our first Christmas as a family of 4...and I love seeing four beautiful stockings on the mantle.
• I'm reading 3 pretty great books right now... about 3 pages at a time. I'll take what I can get these days, right?
  
• 2 sweet, sweet little girls...and I get to spend my days with them. What a great job!
  
• 1 wonderful husband, who organized our computer desk after a long day at work. And he washed bottles, for the second night in a row. Am I lucky or what?

...okay, that was harder than I thought. But fun!

Count your many blessings, name them one by one.