Have yourself a Merry Little......

I have been a good girl...but I don't know how much longer I can hold out.  Yes, I know that Halloween candy is still finding its way to our hips and thighs, and that election signs are still on the streets, but my Christmas CDs are calling.  I hear them beckoning from the deep recesses of the cabinet....just one song....just one Saturday morning of Christmas music and that's it...then I'll put them away until after Thanksgiving. 

Every year I go through this same routine.  I can't help it.  There's just something about the opening trumpets on Harry Connick, Jr.'s "Sleigh Ride" that make me get that giddy feeling inside.  And who can resist Elvis' "I'll have a Blue (da dooby doo doo) Christmas".  Every family has their favorite Christmas CD's.  We have a ton of them, and we listen to them ad nauseum from Thanksgiving through Christmas.  No other music shall touch my ears during that time...strictly yuletide joy.

I have apparently passed this sickness down to my daughters.  My youngest, a sophomore in college, routinely listens to Christmas music while studying...year round. She claims it calms her.  Who am I to argue?

So, for now, I have resisted the urge, but with cold weather arriving this weekend, I can feel myself weakening...

"Just hear those sleigh bells jingle-ing,

Ring ting tingle-ing too

Come on, it's lovely weather

For a sleigh ride together with you..."