Now that we are firmly into November, its only a few blinks of the eyes before December will be here. Which means, if we are smart, we will be working on that Christmas list in the very near future. There are several : personalized gifts I would like to get several members of our family. Those take a little more time and effort than the normal gift, so if that is what I am going to do, I need to working on it now. In David’s family, we used to draw names, and we’d know a couple month in advance who we were buying for. I wish we still did that — buying for someone specific is sometimes easier than just buying a generic gift within a certain price range. With my new camera, there are lots of different directions I could go. But since that isn’t doable, I will contain my ideas within my own family, and proceed accordingly. I really don’t want to wait until the week before Christmas like we normally do to start Christmas this year. Its time we break that tradition!