its snowing here today.....the first of October and snow already!!!! The kids are jumping up and down excited, yipee its snowing and I'm running around going "where the heck are the winter coats, boots, mitts, etc......." grrrr

Not that I hate snow, I just would have liked a little bit more "fall" first.....

zowie Batman! And people here are pulling out sweaters because we have had some 72 degree weather...go figure. Course...most of us are wusses down here when it comes to cold weather...

I love this community. Just when we think we can whine about getting out the sweaters and putting away the flip-flops, someone in here changes my perspective...and today I find myself grateful it's not snowing yet!

Considering that there is already Christmas stuff appearing in teh stores, it might not betoo early to think about snow in our area!

Seeing Christmas items in the stores makes me go, urgg! I am not one of those women who start months ahead with the shoping. I tried it and ended up spending more!

I have a friend who buys her gifts by June each year and has them wrapped and labeled. She called me the other day to remind me of how she ALWAYS has to come help me untangle my Christmas lights before I can decorate my tree...I said "So? Your point?" She gets exsperated with me because I won't take two hours to wrap them back around the cardboard before storing them.

I am quick to point out that if I wasn't so domestically challenged, she would not get to spend an hour to two hours with me each year laughing, drinking hot chocolate, and traveling down memory lane while we untangle my mess. She just sighed...I love spending hours decorating a tree, but sister...when it comes to taking it down, I could set new Indy 500 records.

I mean, it's over, let's get on with it, ya know?

On my dream list:

A large enough house, with huge closets, big enough to hold a fully decorated christmas tree that you just wheel out at the beginning of December and wheel back in there on New Year's Eve......................

But Evie,
Have you lost your mind? You would miss having hot chocolate and fighting over where one places the bulbs and tinsel, and looking for the one bulb that burned out and keeps all the other zillion lights from blinking. And miss stepping on and breaking the one ornament you were saving for your first grandchild but you can't curse so you make up curse words that don't sound dirty...but YOU know. And miss bribing your children with new cars in order to get them to sing sappy Christmas songs.

And you would give up all of this? What were you thinking girl!?

Christmas lights....hahaha....I can one up you JawJaw....this past winter, as you know, there were some crazy goings on at my house. And somehow the christmas lights outside never got taken off the trees. So while I was trimming the trees w/ an electric hedger this summer, I notice the oversight and voila....the perfect solution...I cut the suckers down along with the branches. No more pesky christmas lights to wrap around the papertowel tubes!

I think it was the week after Labor Day, we were taking a walk and went past a house that -- I swear! -- had a Christmas tree up, right by the front window, with lights on and ornaments and everything else. Rushing the season, as my mom used to say.