Am I the only one excited for the holiday season?

[caseysmom]

I use to love the holidays when the kids were little. Now it just seems like work. I hate to sound like scrooge.

I do love the fall and lighting candles and the leaves falling.

We had a horrible storm here last tuesday and lost our big fig tree so its been an abrupt start to fall.

With my baby going off to college next year I am sure I will love christmas again because I will get to see her.

[Pembroke_Corgi]

Yes, I am super excited for Christmas, always am! This year will be extra-special because it's Lyra's first Christmas.

I always wait till the weekend after Thanksgiving to put up the tree (to me that is waiting...), and of course by Christmas it looks a bit raggedy from the cats variously pulling down ornaments/sitting in the tree. We go on a train ride every year (though last year we went to the Nutcracker Ballet instead), and this year we will be going up Pike's Peak again on the cog. We really don't do presents for the adults- last year we did a gift exchange (we put our names in a hat and spent $20 on the person we got and didn't reveal who it was till we exchanged gifts) that was fun so we will likely do it again this year (it is just us, my mom, and my brother's family usually). But, I really love buying gifts for the kids. And this year my mom will be here for 10 days- at Christmas AND New Year's!!

So yes, I'm excited too!

[Zippy]

I am too.I love christmas.I have presents picked out for my family already.I have my christmas cards and am already writing them out.Can't wait to see my favorite christmas movie-It's a wonderful life.Can't wait to buy some candy canes.
I am also exicited for thanksgiving.My cousins are coming.I don't really care much about halloween.Never really have.

[Aspen and Misty]

I'm really excited for the Holidays this season! I'm looking forward to Halloween this year because I'm hosting a fun little scary movie party that I think will be a blast! For Thanksgiving we are trying to get a young adults Thanksgiving started with us and a town across the inlet. I think we will take the hour long ferry ride over there and have Thanksgiving with some other young adults that don't have family over there either. I think it will be a lot of fun! I'm getting the chance to actually be home this Christmas and I simply can't wait! It's been a year since I've seen any of my family and last year I spent Christmas here in Alaska with a friend. To be back in Georgia with my family is going to be wonderful!

Ashley

[pomtzu]

Christmas is my favorite time of the year, but I need about another month before I can start to get enthused about it.

[ramanth]

Bah humbug.

[Queen of Poop]

Under normal circumstances I love fall and Christmas. Right now it seems that it will be absolutely unbearable. No filling Sasha's christmas stocking this year. Or my husbands or the kids. Not sure how I'll get thru it. I'm looking forward to this time NEXT year.