Here Comes Santa Claus!

Santa has made his first appearance at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, which means

a. I can change out my fall door sign a little early for a holiday snowman.
b. We must watch for reindeer crossing the road.
c. I gotta get on that Holiday shopping.

We had already gottten a jump start on the Christmas decorating on the inside of our place with holiday smelly candles, Santa/snowman/reindeer nesting dolls, garland and a wreath above the fire place and a Santa hat on Kermit (he lives in the living room with us). So it already looked like Christmas here. It feels like Christmas outside cause it has definately made the shift to colder weather.

Another northern phenomenon is that it really gets dark early up here. I mean we all experience shorter days, but being so north it is rediculous. I think we are in the worst of it with something like only 6 hours of day light. It is dark till almost 7am and then no joke about 430 it is pitch black outside. Your tummy doesn't know when it is dinner time and your sleeper doesn't know when it is sleepy time. It is so dark out side that you will think it is bed time and look at your watch and say uh well it is only 6 even though it has been pitch black outside for hours. It is just wierd. So when they say Seattle is depressing because of the rain, they lie, it is because the sun never has a chance to come out.

But it isn't that bad. We did get to go to Monika's for Thanksgiving and it was good to be with famliy or at least my family on a holiday. And yesturday it was rainy and cold and extra dark because the sun never came out all day. So we didn't do a darn thing, which was ok with me. David has duty today so he is all alone on the boat and I am all alone here. But we finally have a little family. Abbey has done so well lately. She has been real cuddly with me and even lets David pet her like for five minutes straight. And she even touched him last night, of course it was to play and claw at his feet under a blanket but still she initiated contact. She hasn't quite gotten used to David while standing up, we think she believes there are two of them: the not so scary sitting down David and the terrifying talldavid.

We had a great holiday, I am going to be sad when David goes back to work and he can't hang out with me all day anymore. Why can't everyday be a holiday?