Open Season
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Today, for inexplicable reasons, the holiday season began for me. I even started listening to Christmas carols. I think it’s that New Orleans had its first legitimate cold snap. Or that my office is having its Turkey Day this Wednesday so I have had to start looking at recipes. Or that I sent out invitations to the big family Christmas Eve party that we will be hosting again this year. Or maybe it was all of these things converging on one day.
I love the winter holiday season: the food, the decorations, the music and television specials, the traditions and familial elements. I do not like the commercialism of it all, and I HATE that this year it started after Halloween instead of after Thanksgiving. It’s absurd.
I will again make efforts to do many homemade gifts, mainly in the cooking department. I am too tired and its too late for me to start knitting like I did last year. And for the little kids that will get store-bought items, those are already purchased. So the rest on my list will be taken care of by time spent in my kitchen. With my new little helper.
This year, though not Sun’s first Christmas, will be for Sun the beginning of the magical quality that the winter season encapsulates. And I am rather certain that I am far more excited about it than she is.
Wait, let me get this straight. You’ve already finished buying the presents you’re going to purchase? What! It is freakin November, lady. The rules clearly state that you must run around like an idiot in December, get into one or more fist fight(s) over the last of the latest toy, and have at least one nervous breakdown over the person you forgot to include on your list. You’re cheating.
And I am so damn jealous. I have bought one actual present and 1 set of stocking stuffers (have to do most of those in 3′s). And, now that I think about it, I’m not real sure where that one present is….. crap.
I wanted to decorate this past weekend but my husband protested. But I LOVE LOVE this season. I love to decorate. I love that we have the chill in the air and that spring in the step knowing the magic of Christmas is almost here. To me it is not about the presents, but like you said, the decorations, the music, the traditions.. I cannot wait.. just like you..
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I am still in slight denial that the holiday season is right there…that Thanksgiving is a week and a few days away. I was for once looking forward to the holidays then I saw it appearing (in some places) before Halloween and I backed off quickly. I am going to try to get in the spirit again real soon.
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Um, not that I am a Debbie Downer or anything, but I think by the end of the week it will be back in the 70′s. At least, that is what da weatherman said earlier in the week.
And I thought I was your little helper. Already replaced. Oh well.
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We are having our office Thanksgiving this Friday, but I just haven’t gotten the holiday bug yet. I need to snap out of it, or snap into it… *sigh*
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I was also a bit taken aback to see holiday lights and trees beside the 75% off Halloween candy.
Homemade gifts are really the best. I hope to do the same for local friends and family.
Sounds like you have some tasty treats up your sleeve for the season
p.s. I scraped ice off my windshield this morning. The cold snap has arrived!
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I thought you guys waited for Thanksgiving, or did you already have Thanksgiving and I missed it in the election rush?
Oh, I envy you these next Christmases with Sun. They are magical. “Do you believe in fairies?” Yes, I do! Enjoy every single smulchy moment of it. Store the memories in your heart and take them out anytime you despair that your child is going to grow into a fine upstanding citizen in the future.
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I’m pretty much done with my shopping–addressed the cards–just need to get the tree up now!
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