tis the season to be jolly.....already?!

So I was at the mall today and I was at a department store called David Jones, and I saw the store directory that said "Christmas Shop Level 1". I said to Kait "Oh my gosh they are getting ready for Christmas already?" I mean it's only September 23rd and there are Christmas trees on display in this store along with ornaments and all the other fixings!

This also made me realize that this will be the 1st Christmas in 22 years (my whole life) that I haven't been with my family! That is just so weird to me. I will already be well into Christmas Day before it even reaches Canada. My brother will have to wake up all alone and open his stocking. We usually get up so early and rush to the living room and grab our stockings because that is the best part of Christmas, our Mom is the BEST at stockings!

This will also be the the 1st Christmas I have had that isn't white. I mean to me Christmas is 3 feet or more of snow on the ground, the traditional tree that we cut down in the bush out by my house, decorated with well what used to be all of my brother and my ornaments we made in grade school. My Mom put a halt to this a few years ago and now the tree is decorated in matching bulbs, beads and lights. It always looks so beautiful! 

As I grow older I have to accept the fact that I won't always be able to make it home for Christmas, also in the industry I have chosen to start my career we work on Christmas, so Christmas to me will turn out to be just another day in my life.