I love Christmas, I really do. It's the only real bright spot making the cold weather worth surviving. I know, I'm a wuss, I live in Georgia, where we only usually have 4 weeks of hard freezing and mid 50s the rest of the winter, but that's cold to me. And last year's 8 weeks of hard freezing were...how to describe it...insufferable? Miserable? Horrifying? Anyway, back to the topic at hand.
Christmas. Warm colors, family, friends, gifts, abounding creativity. It has been on my mind in an unusual way, and early on this year. "Christmas in August" has been an offering for years now, but I never really understood the mid-summer yearning for ice and cold wind and Christmas, until I'm feeling it now. Minus the ice and cold wind bit.
The more I think about it, the more it makes sense. Since last Christmas, January has New Year's, February Valentine's Day, March/April have Easter, May my birthday, July Independence day, then we have a long dry spell in August, September, October, and the first half of November, until Thanksgiving and Christmas herald new beginnings for next year. This is the longest festivity dry spell in the entire year. There's no gardening to be done, only a weekly filling of my hummingbird feeder.
Of course, if I truly realized the urgency of how soon my mission trip to Honduras was coming up, I wouldn't be indulging these thoughts of Christmas lists and pinecone bird feeders....but what the hey.
What do you guys think? What are some good Christmas to-do items that I can start early?
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