Simply having a wonderful Christmas Time…

December is here! We have snow…we have holiday music…we have queries from Visa about our increased card activity. The weather outside has been periodically frightful. It must be getting close to Christmas.
The sights, sounds and smells of the holiday season have me at my normal level of mid-December jolliness. The smells part got off to a wonderful start last Friday as Kathy prepared four strips of Danish puff. Unfortunately, my salivary glands were needlessly stimulated as all four went to church for the holiday bazaar.
Any year when my Christmas spirit lies dormant for too long, the Opera House Christmas Show jumpstarts my soul and I become sufficiently stoked. It makes for a long day (I’m usually there for about 13 hours) but I get to hang with my Opera House family all day and get to hear some wonderful musical performances.
The next couple of weeks I’ll spend my time finishing up my shopping and trying to bribe Lindsay into doing my wrapping for me. Then all that is left is to sit back and anticipate.
I won’t keep you long…I know you all are busy this time of year…so I will just leave you with my Top Ten Signs I Know Christmas Time Is Near…
10. I experience increasingly frequent phantom sugar plum sightings.
9. “Just once,” I beg Kathy, “I want you to say to me ‘eat papa, eat…nobody likes a skinny Santa’ when we’re having pizza.”
8. I switch to pine-scented cologne.
7. Begin annual pleading with Kathy to get matching Christmas sweaters.
6. Change all my computer passwords to “Prancer1”.
5. I’ve started the yearly search for new technology to “shake-proof” Kathy’s gifts.
4. Usual profuse sweating is reduced to half with sub-freezing temperatures.
3. Start my annual campaign to get Taco Johns to stop advertising their Nachos Navidad with that awfully repetitious song.
2. I start working on next year’s Christmas gift wish list.
And the number one Top Ten Sign I Know Christmas Time Is Near …
1. Kids point to me in Wal-Mart and say, “Mommy! Look! What happened to Santa?!”
Happy Holidays!