Ready or not Christmas is coming!  My husband and I were in a retail store the day before Halloween this year and were shocked to see it all decorated with Christmas trees and enormous ornaments.   I meant to go back and get a picture, but I didn’t.  Time just slips away.  Now the big day is just a couple of weeks away.  Are you ready?  I’m not!

Today we put some lights up outside.  I love to see houses all decked out in lights.  I love to drive through neighborhoods after dark and look at all the colors.  Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy; sort of  Norman Rockwell-ish.  Here in Lower Michigan we’ve had lots of warm early winter days when we might have completed this task but our holiday lights didn’t venture up from their basement bins.  Today, with a big snow storm headed our way we couldn’t put it off any longer.

Remember last year when I put everything away in their holiday bins?  I was so proud of us, being so organized, everything in it’s red and green bin, labeled and ready for next year.

We packed all the lights and outdoor cords neatly away, so as to make this year so much easier.  I don’t know what happened.

Somehow the Grinch must have gotten into those bins over the summer, because the lights and cords were a tangled mess this morning!

But after much work I got most of it sorted out.  Katie helped.

And now I’m anxiously waiting for the evening to fall so that I can enjoy my very own holiday lights.  This year we put some on the smaller trees in the backyard. Can’t wait to see what the neighborhood deer think about that!

Have a wonderful rest of your weekend everyone!  Katie sends hugs.