I Found a Piece of My Childhood

Unfortunately, it wasn't my favorite part.

The two-block walk to school today took me back. The twenty minutes to get everything on. The long johns (oh yeah). The bright pink snowsuit. (except I was twelve; thank you Mom.) The forgetting to go to the bathroom first. Even the bit about Liam being the only one in his class in snow pants (that happened to me a lot). It's nice to be able to pass this stuff on.

But if you're dressed right, you can spent a lot of time outside and Olivia and I did. We turned a five minute return walk into a half hour slide/mountain climb/shush fest. Good fun.

Anyway, thank you guys for the Christmas music recommendations. Normally I love the ITunes Essentials lists, but I felt like they were letting me down this time, or maybe there were just too many of them to be helpful (there are a LOT of Christmas lists). But I was able to get a bunch of stuff, including Josh Groban (and I never would have gone there alone), Bing Crosby, Johnny Mathis (another reminder of my mom), and, well, a bunch more. I haven't even listened to it all yet. But I will email all of you who helped me out, it's just been one of those weeks.

More randomness: have you seen this year's Starbucks decorations? They are actually yarn ball wreaths! I love them, but my local store said they were only for employees (boo! well, okay). But Mark's Starbucks downtown put our name on one (yay!) and they say we can have it after Christmas. I'm not sure yet if we actually have to pay for it, or how much it might be, but yay!

Okay, I'm off to book club. Hope you're all warm and cozy somewhere, since it's awfully chilly here (12 degrees, and not one of them Celsius). Here's some of what I made to share; something about them cracks me up in an excuse-me-my-suburbs-are-showing kind of way:

(They're pita, guac, and red peppers with pretzel stick trunks. Too funny.)

Comments

[Holly Jo]

It is going to be a white Christmas. :) Love Olivia's fur around her hood.

[Kat]

Hi, im a bit late with Christmas music, but here is a link to one of my most favorite singers, he does a new Christmas album every year. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5gKzXlqsOeE&feature=related
Hope you like it!
I loove snow, here we dont get proper snow just rain and cold and gray.It looks so nice having fun and the snow and my grandma always said: there is no bad weather, there is unapropriate clothing. xx

[Mo]

Isn't it amazing the things that make you think of your mother? Mine died last November and even though she was 83, it was a shock as she was fairly healthy until she wasn't.

But I swear I think of her more now than I did when she was alive ( and we spoke on the phone almost daily). I think of things in regard to her differently and so many things I wish I could ask her...

I totally get the snowsuit thing, even though my baby is 16! And I love the knitted mug from Starbucks and stupidly pointed it out to my daughter the other day ( she is an avid knitter; wheras I like to think about knitting, she actually does it and now I ask her what to do when I make a mistake!)

Off to Sue's for lunch today and perhaps to Starbucks to see if I can get my name on a wreath! Enjoy your cuties. I loved the pictures of Olivia a few posts back.

Mo

[Stacey]

I just texted a friend (ex-coworker) to see if I can snag their wreath after Christmas. Thanks for the heads up. I haven't been in a Starbucks since they've decorated. Btw, you shouldn't have to pay for the wreath. We never charged customers before, there's no SKU for decorations. Anyway.

I love the picture of the snow. I'll send you a pic of what it looks like out here today.

[Nadine]

There should be 'pee rules'. Before snowsuit. Before car rides. Before grocery shopping. Before movie starts. Before bed. Before hiking. Before meetings.

Love the suburb snack! I am sure they were a hit with the book club. We were lucky to get a tea in my book club. I might have continued going if there were proper refreshments.

[Jody]

Olivia looks like quite the little diva in her fur hood. LOVE IT.