Holiday Cards

            We have officially reached the middle of October folks and in the spirit of the season I have colored the words on my blog! No seriously, we have hit a great time of the year. We're slipping in to the delightful warmth of the fall season and out of the blistering inferno of the summer. Sometimes in this time of year I get sudden bouts of vertigo because it feels like I am almost falling in to the dark of the winter to come. This is why I think that humans have found for ourselves so many holidays in the fall and winter to keep us from going crazy as the weather makes us go inside our homes and inside of ourselves.

Right now we're coming up on the first holiday of Halloween and it's going to be a fun one this year for me I think. I have decided to actually dress up. This is huge for me since I haven't since like fifth grade.  After this we're in the home stretch for one of my favorites of the whole year, thanksgiving. Then it's just a matter of time before we are right in the through of winter and Christmas hits us with a vengeance. Then New Years is just the cherry on top as we glide in to the New Year and wait for the icy ground to thaw and the whole year to start over once again.

            Having grown up in a household of professional parents, I see this time not only as a time for celebration, but as a time to say thank you to those around us. When I was a kid it was always a big part of our family ritual to make the business holiday cards for their co workers, and the family holiday cards for the family. We would all sit down together, my parents and my sisters, and we'd write out little personalized messages as dictated by one of our parents. That's why I think this time of year is so special for me because I have so many memories of sitting together in the warm house talking and laughing while we worked. I hope all of you have great feelings about this time of year as well.