I love Christmas!

This season just always puts me a great mood. I love everything about it except one thing. For those family and friends reading this I wonder if you can guess......the weather. Now, I know some of you may say that it's petty and I should love that it was almost 80 degrees today....but I don't. It's December and I want it to rain or snow or at least have a few clouds in the sky so I can sit inside and imagine that it's cold outside. Now, I am not a total pesimist so I will say the good thing about having it be like this in December is that whatever my kids get for Christmas, they can play with outside....heck, we've even went swimming in our pool Christmas day because it's been so warm. Enough already! So, today our good friend, TL came to put up our lights since my husband has banned the idea I think since he turned 40 and decided he was afraid to get on the roof....boo,hoo. Without disclosing Doug's age, let's just say that TL has been doing our lights for many years and he does a great job. No, we are not like the Griswolds but our house still looks great. Plus, I let TL do all the hard stuff and then I usually get in there and add a strand here and there throughout the month. I also started decorating the house and I totally forgot how much Christmas stuff I had. Doug and I loaded 14 bins into my car this morning out of our storage unit and we still didn't get the 2 trees that we put up in the house plus everything that goes to the office to decorate which I think is 3 or 4 more bins. Those of you that know me know that I am NOT a pack rat in any way so it's scary to think how many bins I would have if I was...(hint,hint, Mom!) Well, I'm off to finish some decorating before I hit the pillow. I'll post some pictures of my beautiful labor of love later. I love Christmas!