It's October, and I'm listening to Christmas music!

Who loves Christmas? I do, I do! I'm longing for Christmas. Okay, I have a confession...I don't celebrate Halloween. It's true. Now, gasp. I don't even hand out candy. I am totally creeped out by the holiday. I think it's cute that kids dress up, and I don't mind carnivals, but I think Halloween has some odd origins so it was never a big deal in the Kenner household. I think we dressed up a couple times, but mostly celebrated at our church's Harvest Festival. I did dress up in college for the Theta parties, but again, I'm still totally weirded out by little kids dressing up as witches. Door to door trolling for candy was out! I don't feel deprived either. BUT, Thanksgiving and Christmas was such a special time. I loved going to my granny's for Thanksgiving for the fesitivities. My grandparents had a huge, beautifully manicured lawn (I still remember Glen, the gardener, came on Tuesdays and wore overralls!) and Thanksgiving football games in the backyard were fun! There was always way too much food, but I mostly love the memory of going around the table telling what we were thankful for. Then, my granny would inevitably cry happy tears...I get it from her! We would put up the tree Thanksgiving weekend. Our tree always had to be artifical since we are allergy suffers, but it was still so beautiful! Christmas filled our home with decorations, Christmas cards/update letters, play practices, going to sing with my school choir at the local banks, new pj's, lots of extra time in church, and of course, more time at Granny's. I think I want to have a big family because I have such fond memories of loving being around extended family at these holidays. I'm totally rambling as the Christmas playlist plays on. I'm ready for Thanksgiving and Christmas!

Totally unrelated...been to the LBK two days in a row! Yesterday, Micah and I had much needed haircut appointments after work! I love my hairdresser; who needs therapy when they have a hairdresser. Micah loves her, too! His curls or "wings" as he likes to call them are gone. Since I had not had a trim or highlights since the beginning of July, I was thrilled to walk out feeling like a new person! Then, we went to dinner and had a little dinner date. Sitting at a dinner table not eating sandwiches tends to much better conversation than eating on the couch while watching television. This is a horrible habit which we must break when we have children. Neither one of us ate like this growing up so we need to be good stewards with what we've learned and pass on good table manners to our children. Today, we went back and Micah watched the game with Victor while I listened on the radio as I shopped. My shopping was pretty pathetic. In four hours, I bought two pillows, handtowel, eyebrow wax strips. That's it. Guilt, I tell you. My painter, new guy, I've given up on painter #1 to call is coming on Monday. I felt like I should save my budget for him. I even bought some super cute shoes, got out to the car, felt horribly guilty and walked in and returned them. For the last year and a half, I have worked hard trying to be so aware of money spent that I am starting to almost buy nothing...it's scary! Tech won big today! I listened on the radio in between stops and I found myself sitting in the parking lot waiting until Tech ended their offensive drive...what has Micah done to me? And, the new kicker is doing awesome! College game day is coming to Lubbock this weekend! I'm so excited, and of course, Micah is ELATED!

I'm still rambling...this Christmas mix is so great, and I'm getting lost in it and have just kept typing...

Much love,