Snow

We had some snow fall last night, our first for the season. Mike and I decided to go to Lowes this morning to buy our Christmas tree. It was crisp and cool and the snow crunched under our shoes, making it such a wonderful Christmasy event. The workman who attended us was very helpful, however, he had this huge frozen booger hanging off his nose. I don’t mean to sound gross or offensive but it just made talking to him extremely difficult. I thought about politely telling him but I was torn between doing what was right and having to watch him wipe it off. I had this horrible vision that it was going to pull something even larger and more gross out of his nose (you know the kind of boogers I’m talking about. We all get them). What an awkward situation.
Anyway, for those of you who are wondering, I did get to meet Mike’s little admirer at the cash register. She was very cute and he has my approval. At least he has good taste (obviously, he married me didn’t he?).
I’m definitely feeling the stress of the season. I still have gifts to buy and there’s till much to be done at the house. My brother arrives on Monday. I’m hoping to have everything done by then so I can spend as much time with my family during the holiday. Thankfully, I’ve been given Christmas Eve off which is the big day for my side of the family to celebrate. I realize now how much nicer it was celebrating Christmas as a child. I will always love Christmas but I actually have to think about being excited about it rather than it just happening the way it did when I was little. All of a sudden it was Christmas and everything was wonderful. Mike helps keep me in check. He’s a Peter Pan in many ways. He made Christmas cookies this morning and was all giddy through the whole process. He’s such a monkey.