Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. PLEASE!

It's official. I WANT CHRISTMAS!!! Please? But it's still months away =(. Actually the truth is that I want Tree Day.

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My mum hates shopping, so I didn't know that the day after Thanksgiving is, in most houses "Black Friday". In our house it has always been Tree Day. My favorite day of the year. It's the day when we all pile in the car and drive up the mountain to Apple Hill and Robert's Christmas Tree Farm, and cut down a sweet smelling Douglas fir. The last few years my brother(s) have played football with friends on Tree Day (The Gravy Bowl...silly boys) and I decorated the house and baked Christmas cookies while they were gone, and we got our tree in the afternoon. I don't know if that's happening again this year.

So last night I had an awesome/faintly sad Christmas dream. How can something be both awesome and faintly sad you ask? (see Great Gatsby for best example ever! But that's not at all faint in it's sadness. I digress) I will tell you.

So the sad part was my entire family (and several of my friends families) decided to be jerks and disappear  for a tiny part of November (starting on Tree Day) all of December and a little bit of January. But that's ok! Because some how the chicken coop just down the hill from my house had also done a little bit of deciding, but it had decided to turn itself into an adorable little cottage. So my friends (Julia, Sam, Matteus and Rebekah) all came and spent over a month with me =D. That was the awesome bit.

They were supposed to arrive on December 1st but surprised me by getting there really early the morning of Tree Day so the five of us all went and got our tree and then decorated the whole cottage (there was a fire place!) with tons of twinkle-lights, greenery and paper chains plus the tree and all. We still had like two weeks of school to do but we had the nicest time any way =). We would do our school and then in the evenings someone would play piano and Sam would play guitar and we all sang Christmas carols (and sounded really good. Way better than we would have realistically =P) And we made tons of super yummy food, and ate it all (the wonderful thing about it being a dream is that none of us got fat on all of the cookies, pie, gingerbread, candy-canes, hot cocoa, popcorn and ice-cream we ate. (Not to mention all the savory stuff! Soups and stews and bread and potatoes and stakes and pork-chops and all sorts of other things I don't remember. Oh and breakfasts...yum!) We went caroling in Rebekah's neighborhood, and to Christmas parties at other people's houses. We mixed Christmas traditions and had an all 'round wonderful time. And then on Christmas Eve, just before we were gonna turn out the lights and stuff each-others' stockings it started snowing! So we went out and sang Christmas carols at the top of our lungs =). And the next day it was a white Christmas!

OK so some of it was a dream from last night and some of it was embellishment added this morning. But it was still fun =).