I don’t think it’s a secret that I love Christmas.  I think it’s in my genes.  A few years ago, my brother commented that during the holidays, my parents’ house looks like Christmas threw up on it.  My mom makes the house look like something out of a magazine.  I believe she had nine trees [...]

Yesterday, my mailbox was full to the point of exploding.  Thankfully, it wasn’t bills.  Some charity donation requests, but what was filling the mailbox were all the catalogs.  Some of them were catalogs I expected – those from stores that I have ordered from in the past.  Some were just completely random though.  I can’t [...]

It feels so weird to be listening to Christmas music and seeing holiday decorations everywhere, but I guess it is November already, so it’s just about that time.  I was amazed to see candy canes in the store this weekend.  The other decorations have been out for months, but when the candy canes show up, [...]

My mother has trained me well.  Christmas is more than two months away and I have just about finished my Christmas shopping.  I do still need to buy something for my brother, but he’s easy – I ask him what he wants, he links me to his Amazon Wishlist, and we’re set.  He’s hard to [...]