Holiday Thoughts

I'm trying really hard to get in the holiday spirit. I really am. But it just isn't happening. I don't have it in me this year. The house isn't decorated, I haven't been playing the music, and I don't have much shopping done. I don't know what it is this year that is making me feel this way. I think it started with being away over Thanksgiving. That is usually my time to get in the holiday mood. I pull out the cds and start playing the holiday music and decorating the day after Thanksgiving. But this year we were in Florida through that weekend. That meant I missed my big holiday kickoff day. Then the kids got sick...Matt with mono and Pat with an upper respiratory infection. We ended up cancelling our Christmas party. And the kids won't give me a reasonable gift list. So I am boycotting this year. It is the 9th of December and I have done very little! And I just don't care! But I did start printing some of our pictures from Florida, including the one here. That counts for something, right?