I have already told y’all how much I love fall. And as usual, it has taken it’s sweet time to feel like it in Virginia. It kind of teased us abit early on but then those higher temperatures came on back in. Finally some temps that feel like November.
So when I started writing this blog, I posted how I wasn’t ready for the season to change. I just wanted to hold summer a little longer. Well no more! 2020 has been an incredible rollercoaster ride for this family and today I can say that I am ready for the next season to come quickly! Yep! CHRISTMAS!!
Danny definitely thinks it should wait til after Thanksgiving, as usual. I said nothing is “usual” this year. Normal got thrown out the window at some point last March and hasn’t found it’s way back since. It’s time to change the season!!
I started thinking how about how that applies to the seasons of our lives too. Right now I am in a season of life that I want to S L O W down. I do not want this season to change. I just about want it to stop as I watch these sweet littles grow. I know it won’t, and that’s okay.
And as there are seasons we want to hang onto a little bit longer, there are those that we want to fast forward through. You may be finding yourself in the midst of a health issue or crisis. This year has been financially difficult for many. Maybe it’s the loss of a job or loss of a loved one. So many things can cause us to wish that time move faster. Hoping the next season brings better situations.
Obviously the real seasons come and go on a regular schedule. We know when right down to the date when we change them. They don’t always look or feel like the season, not how we expect them to, but it’s a definite change. We don’t have any control over natures changes. Just as we can’t control the seasons of our lives.
What I can control is how I decorate, and when. How I make my little bubble in this world feel. The Christmas spirit is a season to me. Now I don’t leave out Thanksgiving, I give it its due day. But we don’t refer to it as the Thanksgiving spirit, at least not in my world, it is Thanksgiving day. And yes I do start listening to Christmas music and watching Hallmark Christmas movies in November. And this crazy, out of control year I am going to start decorating my house for MY most wonderful time of the year.
Whatever season you find yourself, know they don’t last. Just like in nature there will be change. So if this year you find some small way to control something in your life, please by all means DO IT!!! Deck those halls when you want! You want peppermint coffee creamer, push right past the pumpkin. You’re tired of news, change that channel to a little town in Vermont where some beautiful, hardworking city girl is falling for that good looking Christmas tree farmer.