The holidays...

Normally, this time of year is filled with good cheer and warm feelings and family time. However, I am not sure about anyone else, but I am just not "feeling" it this year. Be it the fact that I haven't had much time to relax, shop for presents or even breathe with another child in the mix. I like to blame it on the fact that snow hasn't yet fallen, but I can't even do that as Mother Nature has proven me wrong once again by laying a beautiful blanket of snow on the ground and I still don't feel much different.

I am really trying to push myself to enjoy the nights of cold outside and warmth inside our wonderful home. I have decorated everything that needs that special touch. I turn on our Christmas tree lights every morning, as soon as I wake up. I have put out the Christmas deco coffee mugs. I have even played a Christmas CD in my car to the point where I am singing along on the top of my lungs and I am sure that the cars driving past me have thought I was an insane person!
Although that did help for the short bit of time that I was in my car, it didn't seem to last.

Coming from a family that used to put Christmas decorated toilet paper in their home as a kid, what is wrong with me?!?!?!?  It has even come to the fact that traditions are changing in our family.  We now have two young girls but the boys are both grown and out of the home. My extended family are all doing their own things in their own homes and then planning on gathering later on when most convenient. It just seems like another time of year to me, nothing out of the ordinary.

Maybe it is time for our family to start our own traditions.. carry on some of the old and come up with new... now, let's just hope that helps to put me into the Christmas spirit so I am not a "bah humbug" type of Mom on Christmas morning!

Here is my start...

First Snowfall=Frozen Feet

What traditions do other families have? What do others do to put themselves in the Christmas spirit?