Let there be snow!

10 days to go! ('Till we get there anyways, not 'till the 25th)
Make sure you guys save some of your snow for us when we get there! Tim says it's hard to get into the Christmas Spirit when it's in the high 70's and low 80's. So we put our Christmas tree up the week before Thanksgiving and are just about continually playing Christmas music here at home and in the car. There are 2 radio stations that are playing continuous Christmas music this year, except for the obligatory 10 minutes of commercials every hour. This week I hope to get our other decorations up too. We're really hoping to see some snow up there too. It's been two years since we've seen any!! It didn't seem to get that cold down here last winter either. But maybe it seemed that way 'cause I was pregnant and my hormones were still all funky? :-P

I can't say I have a favorite Christmas song. They're all good for the most part. Along with the traditional ones, I also like some of the newer 'soon-to-be-classics' like "Mary did you know?" and the "Christmas Shoes". (Except when the radio stations play them like twice every hour.) I think they help to bring our focus back to the true meaning of Christmas, the greatest gift ever: Christ's birth, and his sacrifice to pay for our sin so we could be reconciled to our Father.

--Cyndi