The Christmas Season and all that I will deal with

Well, it's finally November and while I am at work today, my hunny is taking in the Christmas stuff from the shed to the house so it's in there for when I get home!! I will go through it and see what I need to get for this year and start putting up my decorations!!! :)  Peter is going to go through the lights and stuff for outside and see what light bulbs he needs to replace and start putting up the decorations outside. We are a little concerned about doing our yard as the other night we had some of our Halloween decorations from outside stolen by a couple of teenagers. The RCMP caught them and we got our stuff back but now we are nervous having our Christmas stuff outside. :( I think it's really sad when you have to be concerned about decorating for any holiday because some stupid kid who doesn't have anything better to do might come along and steal your stuff or wreck it. It really makes me angry actually!!!! Last year on Christmas morning, YES you read correctly, CHRISTMAS MORNING.....someone stole our mechanical deer from out in the front yard. We went to bed at about 2 am and got up at 6 am on Christmas morning as I had to go to work and noticed that the deer and three of our lighted Candy Canes were missing from the display!! We never did find those and so Peter is going to try and figure out a way that we can have our stuff up and hopefully no one will be able to get at it and steal it or destroy it.

Jeff is over helping his grandpa put up lights and decorations in his yard today too!! Our whole family is like this!!! We love this time of year and just can't help ourselves!!! And, in two weeks we will be putting up dad's Christmas tree. That will be both a happy time and a sad time!!! This is the first Christmas without my mom and so we are going to go over and help my dad set up his tree and decorate it!!! I am sure there will be smiles and laughs and tears as well. All the memories and just the fact that she isn't here to do it too will be hard and happy at the same time. We were in Canadian Tire yesterday and we saw this house that you press the button and the trees change colors and it plays Silent Night (which was one of mom's favorite Christmas songs) and I started crying in the store because I miss her and because I knew that she would have loved that house!!! I might go and buy it because I loved it too and because I would have bought it for her!!! I am very glad that I moved out here when I did and that I got to spend all that time with her before all this happened and that I got one more Christmas with her (last year)!!! I will cherish that forever!!!

I miss you mom and love you very much!!!