I had a big excitement this weekend!! DH and the kids and I went to Costco to do a little grocery shopping, and guess what?! They had some Christmas stuff out already!!! We walked into the store, and of course DH had to stop at the tv’s….anyway…I continued just slowly walking on past while he longingly gazed at the GIANT LCD screens…when lo and behold, there in front of me was an eight-foot-tall beautiful green Christmas tree decked out with hundreds of twinkling lights and pretty, shiny ornaments!! I was so excited I almost started jumping up and down right there in the store! So, of course, I immediately informed DH that I would be walking through all of the Christmas stuff next…whether he liked it or not! Then quick as a flash…he took the cart and the baby and made a break for the tool aisle. Free of our “manly” burden then, DD and I proceeded to slowly mozy on through the Christmas aisles, gazing in wonder at all of the pretty lights and decorations, discussing which paper we were going to pick out for “Santa” this year, discussing our decorating plans for the tree, the outside, the living room, the dining room, etc. All in all, it was a great time for DD and me, we are both SO excited! So now here I am on Monday…at work…and I’m listening to my Christmas music station on Pandora.com, and it’s taking everything I’ve got to not just sing it all out loud to everyone! lol Oh, and now, the weather is really starting to head into fall-like patterns. It’s supposed to be in the low 80’s here today…but tomorrow, they say it may not get above 72 or so…with low’s in the morning of about 40-50!! I’m thinking that we may even get snow by Thanksgiving this year! It would be SO awesome to have snow on Christmas! We hardly ever get that any more. But it’s looking like a great possibility this year! We were so hot here last year, that it was this temperature in the beginning of November! But it’s quickly cooling here, and that just excites me even more! I’ll be popping into my local Lowe’s and WalMart as often as possible to see if the Christmas stuff is out there yet! I can just picture it all now!! Aisles and aisles of sparkling red and white and green and gold. Quirky little brightly colored ornaments of all shapes and sizes. Glittering strands of garland, twinkling strings of lights, giant blow up Santa’s popping in and out of chimneys, papers with shining silver stars and glistening red and green bows to adorn the precious gifts for our loved ones…is anyone else this crazily excited yet? Is it just me? Ah well, at least it makes ME happy, lol.
