My Winter List

I am so excited that winter is in the air... you can smell it on the sharp breeze and the scent of chimney smoke and wood burning in peoples homes. The best indication of the Holiday season though is the Christmas lights. I absolutely love perusing the neighbourhoods looking at peoples homes and seeing how they have decorated for the holidays, some just have wreaths on the door and candles in the window, while others create a whole theme park in the front and back yards of lights and characters and those new fangled blow up creatures that loom over top of everything. They sway and jerk in the breeze coming to a life of their own without having anything but air blown into them its amazing and somehow irksome. Anyway I feel like doing a list of the things that I love and hate about winter so here goes.

Things I love:

- The chimney smoke rolling out of chimneys on a cold winter breeze, oozing out the top and dwindling into the night sky

- The smells and sounds of the winter season, the cool air smell, the smell of wood burning in hearths, the sounds of kids playing in the snow even the sound of the snowplows rolling by makes me smile

- Friends gathering together at coffee shops, all wrapped up in their winter getups pulling off festive mittens and scraves and hats with pom poms

- Milk hot chocolate with mini marshmallows and a candy cane as a stirrer

- The bustle of the stores as everyone gets ready for the Holidays

- Fresh baked goods of any kind just seem to taste better during the winter time especially when they're fresh out of the oven

- The times spent with family, just sitting inside, playing cards and having family time

- Sledding, Skiing, snowball fights, skating, snow forts and snowmen

- Getting a red nose and rosy cheeks

- The warmth of indoors and the feeling of cosiness due to that warmth

- Cuddling up with that special someone to help keep me warm

- Standing out in the snow as it falls from the sky, the feeling of utter joy and trying to catch the flakes on my glove to see what shape it is

- The decorations on houses

- Decorating my home and tree for the holiday season

Things I hate:

- The bitter cold that comes with the days that it never really snows it just freezes

- Wet feet and hands after playing outside

- Runny noses and eyes, we all get it from stepping out of doors and into the frigid air

- Shoveling , enough said.

- The storms that leave you isolated and without power and heat

- The threat of not making it home safely due to the road conditions

- The huge pile of snow that always get plowed into the front of your driveway just as you finish

- Feeling of freezing every last body part off after being outside, my ears, hands, legs, feet, nose and such ache and pin and needle when I come in out of the cold, icky feeling

- The worrying about others who have to travel in horrid weather

Thats about it for now.. I love it more then I hate it thats always a positive thing. Come on winter I'm ready for ya!