Christmas Cheer

I caught up on your blogs, Car. I love the one Dad wrote....so sweet. I too am caught up in Christmas cheer lately. On Thanksgiving day, we put up the tree, stapled white icicle lights ALL around the outside of the house, hung wreaths from the doors. Dad even helped me wrap up huge boxes with cascading ribbons to look like gigantic presents to put way up high on the plant shelves...said he used to do it to decorate the house back when he and mom didn't have a lot of money. Anyway, I can't get enough of the holiday spirit. I have a full-size Christmas tree in my classroom too, and I play Bing Crosby every chance I can get. I can't wait for Chicago....I hope it's snowy...I can't wait to hear the street entertainers singing "White Christmas".....seeing the Christmas windows in Marshall Fields...ice skating in Millenium Park....hot cocoa in corner Starbucks...AH! Thinking about it makes me insane, I'm so excited.
On a different note, I too understand getting so sad at Somer's fleeting baby days. When I'm with her, I just want to digress back to bottles and pacifiers and cribs. Dad said she'll walk downt he aisle someday with a pacifier and we'll all think she's so cute because we wanted her a baby forever! Ha! Make hot cocoa tonight....have a fire....and give Somey a big ba-ba. :o)