It's coming.

Christmas that is.  It's coming, as it always does.  I've been lulled by the beautiful weather we enjoyed during the first half of October, but suddenly, BAM!, within the last 24 hours I've been hit with Christmas decorations in a store (I know, I know, we're not even past Halloween yet), cold weather, and two Christmas catalogs in my mail.  Speaking of those catalogs, they are skinny little things compared to the ones we use to pour over when I was a child.  You remember "the good old days" when the catlogs were an inch thick and contained everything wonderful you could imagine? Today's versions still happily picture dolls and trucks and blocks - sweetly familiar, but also pages of technology and more pages of Legos. All of these are great toys and some bring back memories. Not the technology toys of course, but there are still some things that I do know how to manipulate, like the boxes of Crayola Crayons. I used to love to get a brand new box of 84 crayons.  Yikes! another harbinger of the Christmas season was just on the news. The weatherman says we could see a few snow flurries by morning.  I'm contemplating hibernation.