Sbux has it right

Since everyone and their mother has been talking about it, I thought I would too:

Today, Starbucks started using their red cups in honor of the Christmas season.

So that makes this:

not seem so

weird
too early
wrong
cuh-raaazy


I don't see anyone telling Starbucks to slow it down or remember that Thanksgiving comes first.

Nope. In fact, I know some of you all ran out to get a red cup today because you were so excited at the first glimpse of Christmas.

So there. Now I think I'll bask in the glow of my Christmas tree lights, and the rest of you can just be jealous of my Christmas tree on November 4th.


:)

Wordless Wednesday

countdown

it's a square

Shakespeare wrote this many plays

the number of inches in a yard

the number of stars the American flag had from 1865 - 1867

the number of degrees in each angle of a 5-tip star




thirty-six days until this:




and this:



So, in military wife-fashion, I shall do a military wife countdown:

I only have to make it through 6 days for 6 times.

OR 12 days for 3 times.

I can do it, right?! I seriously want to jump on a plane and zoom home. ASAP. Virginia seriously has nothin on these two cuties.

we are THAT family

Oh yes. We are that family. The family that puts up their Christmas decorations 2 months in advance. The family that's outside stringing Christmas lights before the Thanksgiving menu has even been thought of. The family that you talk about.

Oh yes.

And now I shall bust out in song with some visual aides for your pleasure:

*Shakes a Maraca shakeshakeshake jingle jingle jingle*


Dashing to the Target
In a 4-door Jeep Patriot
On the interstate we go
There's so much stuff to get!
KLove* starts to sing
Making spirits bright
What fun it is to go shopping
On this November night!

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Jingle Bells
Jingle Bells
Jingle all the way

Oh what fun it is to put up our tree
on this November day!

A day or two ago
the story I must tell
We went to our Target
I saw it & started to yell!
Reindeer ears for a dog
Oh how cute that'd be
To put it on our Westie
I know she'd look lovely!

Ohhhhhhhhhhh

Jingle Bells
Jingle Bells
Jingle all the way

Our Christmas tree is up tonight
and it's here to stay. YAY!

*KLove is our Christian radio station in Virginia. And, oh, how we miss WAYFM

I haven't photographed the rest of the house yet, but we have colored lights around the living room and snowmen set out. Our red & white candles are out, and we'll soon be putting our Christmas lights outside! We also bought 4 lollipop pathway lights. It will all be so cute! Our new Christmas wreath is also already out. We are so excited for Christmas this year!

Quoth the Shannon, "Do not go."

Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the warm October
And we traveled to Richmond on a Saturday's bore,
Eagerly I sought Poe, to see his museum, I was gung-ho.
From the museum, it was quite depressing, depressing for the Lost Ed'Poe,
For the weird young man whom his mother named Ed'Poe,
Terrible museum, do not go.

From the second stanza in The Raven

this one's for The Tell Tale Heart
my favorite

his wifey's piano

some kind of monument thing
very cool

fa la la la la...

So the seasonal Yankee Candles have been bought. And by "seasonal" I mean.. Christmas seasonal. Not fall seasonal. Even though it is technically fall. And it will be fall until the day after Thanksgiving.

At least in my book.

But, like, this is our first year with our own house. And we've been married for practically a year. So it isn't like we got married in October and only have to wait a couple months before our first Christmas. Nope. We got married in January, so we have to wait an entire year for Christmas to roll (crawl?) around again.

So forget what everyone says -- I am so totally going to decorate our house Christmasy tonight. Yes. Tonight. On November 2nd. I've got it in my head that I will bring home a Christmas tree tonight, also get some Christmas lights, and start decorating. Currently, we have orange lights hanging inside our house, but those can quickly be replaced with colored lights.

Ahh, yes, I can see it all in my head...

I feel pretty bad for my Yankee Candle scarecrow candle holders. They are mighty cute, but I'm this close to stuffing them into a box until next year. I totally also envision a homemade candle holder using peppermints as a base with a red candle in the center.

I totally feel like popping a Christmas CD (if I had one) into a CD player (if I had one) and singing along to Jingle Bells. How exciting.



But what's even more exciting is me going home in a tad over a month. Holy guacamole, I can't even STAND IT! :D

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