Bring it ON!

All the warnings and reminders and mental notes I've been making...I'm SO ready.

Yesterday, realizing it was my last chance, I got:

-the last of my leaves raked up

-my winter coats and boots out of the basement

-my snow brush from the porch into the car

-the garage all cleared out and ready to park in

I'm so ready for the snow and it was just in time. It seems incredible to me that just a few short hours we can go from a windy, cold, brow, ugly city to a bright, white beautiful one where the 'warmness' of snowfall makes you want to go for a late night winter walk.

I even put up the second string of christmas lights I had waiting (pre-snowfall), which, let me tell you was not as fun as I imagined it would be! It was SO cold I had to come in twice for warm up/tea breaks! There was also a kinda tippy ladder and a slight fear of falling and no one finding me until I had frozen to death. But, ahhhh, our house looks completed now. I'm glad I don't have any competition on our street, so that our house just looks simple and cheerful. If I did have competition, though, I'd so be doing this!

But I think I'll give it a few days before my indoor christmas decorations go up. I don't want to get sick of Christmas too fast and this year I think I'd like to focus on advent a bit more. Enjoy that sense of anticipation a bit.

Then I'll get some eggnog and put on the carols!