This just totally cracks me up! I have been observing this for awhile now and wanted to put it out there for fun. Ok I have a strange sense of fun, but here it goes. Have you ever noticed that when you go to the drive up window at a fast food place, if it’s a guy (male person) on the window that gives you your food, you NEVER get napkins in your bag? Now if it is a girl (female person) there always seems to be a few napkins in the bag. I wonder why that is? Is it because guys just use the sleeve of their shirt, or do they just think it is a money saving  thing for the fast food employer? Ah well, just another one of those men are from Mars things I guess. I don’t think I will ever know the answer to this mystery of fast food delivery.

Now as we approach the Christmas holidays I am finding that I sort of wish I had kids. Did I really say that? Oh my gosh, what am I thinking. Or at least maybe that the BIL and SIL were here so that I could enjoy their kids at Christmas. What I want to do is decorate the house. You know, put out all those Christmas things I have in boxes here in the storage closet. Also all my Santa’s, and Nutcrackers and the big 9 foot tree, drape the banister with the garland and the Nutcrackers that I have hanging from them. I want to bake Christmas Cookies and have the house smelling like its a holiday. I want to see lots of wrapped packages under the tree and to see stockings hanging from the fireplace mantle. I have some great stockings to put up there. In other words, I want to have the holiday here in my home. Now what is it that we usually do? Well first off the hubster will sleep in till the last possible moment, my folks will come over to have dinner with us. The B&C will deep fry the turkey and I’ll do the other stuff in the kitcher. My mom will do some of the stuff at her house, like bake the pies. It will be a quiet day with just the 4 of us,  unless you count the 6 Sheepdogs as well. The Sheepies do not care if I put the tree up or if I have stockings hanging from the mantle. They do not care if I decorate the banister, or put the Santa’s and Nutcrackers up. They do care about that turkey and they would also love to get their teeth into some of those cookies. They could care less about wrapped packages under the tree unless there was a dog cookie attached to the bows.

When I was a kid, and even into early adulthood there was something about this holiday. The advent of the VCR was a wonderful thing in my family. I think some of the first movies we purchased were the Christmas films. White Christmas, It’s a Wonderful Life, The Bells of St Mary’s, Christmas in Connecticut, The Bishops Wife to name a few of the older ones. Then as time went on there were the Home Alone movies, and who can forget the Santa Clause movies with Tim Allen, those have almost become a tradition as well. I miss that, watching those movies, and eating cookies (I really don’t need the cookies but what the heck, it’s Christmas time), and maybe even having a fire in the fireplace. That’s why we have one right? That’s why I need kids. I need the feeling that you get when you are doing all that stuff for them, not to mention yourself. It’s the end of the year, it is a holiday after all and I think I need the festivities.

I did put up a tree this year, it was one of the small ones we had in the shop. It’s maybe 3 feet tall. I put some inexpensive glass ornaments , lights 300 of them and garland. I even placed an angel at the top of the tree. I think I needed that this year.

Now to the topic of Nutcrackers. I love them! I would love to have tons of them, but I have no place to put them. I’m not sure why I have developed a taste for them, I don’t eat nuts and I sure would never use them for cracking nuts anyway. I would love to have one of those 3-4 foot tall nutcrackers to put in my living room when I put the 9 foot tree up. I also think I need several of the 1-2 foot tall ones and all sizes under that as well. I could place lots of them on and around the tree. Well I guess thats going to have to wait for another year. I just wish I could get my Husband excited about Christmas. Make it a special day for us and not just treat it as another day of the year. Maybe this is one of those women are from Venus things?