Christmas in August?

As most of the people reading this blog know, I absolutely L.O.V.E. the holidays.  If I could, I would just have September, October, November, and December rotate in a calendar year.  Well this year I seem to have caught the Christmas bug a little bit early.  It all started the other day I was talking to my friend James about the good old days of singing with Madrigals at Christmas time.  Well now I have seasonal depression because I wish it was winter.  I watched Miracle on 34th Street tonight and now I'm listening to my Pop Christmas station on Pandora.  Yes, I know, it's weird that I am listening to holiday music in August.  Although I can't help myself.

It's kind of a family joke about me and Christmas.  I love decorating the tree on my birthday (which is always over Thanksgiving break) and dragging one of my sisters to shop at Modern Display at least twice during December, and I usually add 3 or 4 glass ornaments to my collection.  This year I started my shopping early.  On our vacation a couple weeks ago we found a store across from Quincy Market called Christmas in Boston.  I was seriously in heaven and wanted to move there just to work at the store.  Let's just say I got a few ornaments.  After we walked out about $100 poorer, Erin joked that when my parents die all my sisters will get the furniture and valuable stuff and, well, I'll get the Christmas ornaments.  But hey, I wouldn't complain! And at least my house will look festive.

As a friend just stated right now and you're probably thinking, "Abby. Stop that right now! Summer needs to stay."  Well agree with her or not, but for now I'm going to fall asleep and hopefully dream of snow, Christmas lights, Grandpas carved Santas, and Mannheim steamroller music.

The before and after of last years tree