looked at my watch this morning and realized...

10 days till Christmas!!!

{kevin mccallister and I share the same reaction to the news...}

can it really already be Christmas? but how? I haven’t even transitioned into a cold wardrobe until this week when temperatures hit the 20’s and the heat in our house broke. (I will say I did not enjoy being able to see my breath inside my house.) yes, Christmas jingles are all I sing but the most thought I’ve put towards the real holiday has been saving people’s december-ish pictures from blogs to post on here. consider me a slacker. I haven’t been home long enough to go around the neighborhood with my dad and collect things to make wreaths and garlands for our house and overdecorate the place-- Chevy Chase National Lampoon style. I haven’t put up lights in trees or hung lighted balls. I haven’t even decorated the tree (which this year is ginormous and perhaps too big to house all our old fashioned homemade ornaments.) I haven’t gotten anyone presents nor put enough thought into what people would really want and need. and worst of all, I don’t think I’ve been thinking enough about the reason for the season. my hope is that the next ten days pass by slowly so I can do some things and reflect a lot...