No!!! It's too soon...

As a post script to a committee related e-mail that I received earlier today, a friend wrote "I started my Christmas shopping this weekend."  Really, it's 90% out, it's August, I'm just beginning to get use to seeing school buses on the road. Christmas shopping???  Actually, I have always admired people who do their Christmas shopping early.  I don't emulate them, but I do admire them.  However, I do have a system that works for me. When my friend Rosie tells me that she has finished her shopping, usually about mid-October, I know it's time to get started.