the holidays are coming, the holidays are coming....

i can't believe that it's the middle of august and i'm so ready for the holidays to be here.

i think it's becuase i'm done with this scorching heat and want the coolness here, now! as i was sitting down at my desk this morning on of my favorite (to look at) magazines was laying there, staring at me.  ABC Distributing, i never buy anything from them but love to look and write down everything i want from it.  they always have cutesy stuff that i would really never put in my house but just like to dream. then it hit me, more so now, that the holidays will literally be here sooner than later.  it's that part of the year that just hauls ass , like a roller coaster that takes forever (or it seems that way) to get up that incline (January - JUly) then once it hits that just about over the hill spot (august), it takes a mad dash down the hill (September - December), then it's all over.  you spend the year preparing for it all and then it's over.  i can't wait though, every year it is so exciting to look at ideas for decorations for halloween - christmas.  there are so many crafty ideas swimming in my head, things are getting jumbled in there. i refuse to buy many things this year (as i say every year) because I WILL make more and enjoy making it all. after all isn't it "the thought that counts...." I think if i spend time making something for someone it is better appreciated knowing it came from the heart and hands rather than the rack / shelf of some stupid mass produced store. i want my kids to learn that "the thought" that is put into something far outweighs the time it took to pick it out of a store, in which the person could potentially end up with 3 others of the same thing.............