I was looking the kitchen window sill last night and realized that I had a pumpkin decoration up. "Eeegads!" I thought to myself, "I need to take down this pumpkin decoration!" As I continued to think about it we still had ALL of our pumpkin decorations up. I blushed a little. Then I realized that in a mere TWO WEEKS that we'd be decorating for Christmas. I made an executive decision to leave all pumpkin decorations up for two more weeks instead of making multiple trips to the "seasonal decoration" bins in the basement. We're so "life on the edge".
Marc and I have been humming Christmas tunes for several weeks now. When the girls came over to carve pumpkins on Halloween we listened to Christmas music (it was all Krista, I swear!). I did mention to them that my brain was all confused - I was pulling slimy pumpkin innards out but listening to Christmas carols.
I'm chomping at the bit to hang up the Christmas decorations! I want to put up the outside lights, but now that it is dark out when I get home from work we haven't had the chance to do that yet. I might settle for putting the candles in the windows. I hesitate to do this though because one of Tucker's favorite things to do is to look out the window - this will keep him occupied for great lengths of time. Anyway, each year we have several light/nose accidents during the first few days the lights are in the window because he's not used to them being there. It's actually mildly hilarious to watch.
When Megan, Desiree, and I were out running errands last week we walked into JoAnn Fabrics and the smell was so immediately wonderful I can't even describe it! After we found what we went there for we followed our noses to identify what it was that smelled so wonderful! Well, wouldn't you know it was cinnamon scented pine cones. Oh gloriousness. We each bought a bag (my car ride home smelled delicious by the way). I'm excited to decorate with them in TWO WEEKS!
Then we get to thinking about others - Malea will be in Guatemala for Christmas - we wonder how they will celebrate Christmas? We think about Bart who is deployed - there will be lots of sand involved in his Christmas. How will he celebrate Christmas?
A good reminder that we are blessed and need to be turning that around to bless others - how can we give a little bit of our Christmas to them?
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My mom will be here for Christmas! And I don't know what the actual day will be like, but I have a whole month off work (I don't know what I will do to fill my time... add to that my sudden lack of internet access and I might be in some trouble!) but while she's here we're going to do some fun stuff. I found a horseback tour, a coffee plantation, and this weekend I'm going to check out some fair trade places.
There won't be any snow, and I haven't heard mention of a tree. I'm a little frightened to see what Christmas food is here, after some of the recent culinary experiences I've had. But hey, we're going with the flow... and there's so much to look forward to in the coming weeks and months, with mom's visit, work groups coming down, and school starting up soon. It will be summer before you know it!!
love you
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