It's fall and I'm nostalgic. And it can always be wrapped up like that for me. There's just something about this time of year that "brings it all back". Back to "what" exactly, I don't know, but what I do know is that I'm fiercely traditional. I guess that's a funny way to describe my traditional nature since I'm not really violent about it, but you get the point. What I really mean to say is that I have a lot of rules in regards to my traditions. One of them is that we don't play Christmas music until Thanksgiving weekend, the reason being that we love it so much we don't want to wear it out before the season even hits. Which brings me to something else: Christmas decorations. I love 'em. I love going into stores and seeing everything all done up, whether it's Target, Macy's, Pottery Barn, Crate and Barrel, Nordstroms....you name it. And they got me in the grasp of their consumers hand, too. I want that cute Christmas tree mug from Starbucks, that set of eight snowflake place settings from Pottery Barn, that Santa Claus bundt cake mold from Williams and Sonoma and the reindeer hot chocolate mix from Sees Candy. I LOVE IT ALL!



Sorry.....I'm stepping over my Traditional boundaries by talking about Christmas when we're still three days away from Halloween. Now, I've always loved Halloween, but it's kind of been more of a bridge to Thanksgiving for me than anything else. Don't get me wrong, I love all the spookiness, kookiness, candy and greed as much as anyone, but just knowing that Thanksgiving is around the corner with all of the fighting and bickering getting ready to begin...well...its hard for me to contain my excitement.



I love it all.