My son's birthday falls right after Thanksgiving. Then I am swamped with stuff at church usually in addition to celebrating a handful of other birthdays between November and the 1st of the year.
So I do all the holiday shopping and my son's birthday shopping early. Holiday cards are done by the end of November as well. Otherwise I really do go nuts.
We're having some major changes going on w/in the church too which is making music stuff even more stressful for me. So ever since my son was born I have had to get my act together. The year he was born the tree was never officially put up. I started to, went into labor and it sat there until February half fluffed

I had so much fun tonight looking at the kids and passing out candy though. It is one of my husband's favorite holidays so I enjoy watching him go crazy happy doing everything
