Yipee! It's Christmas at Walmart!

I have a confession to make...I am one of those people! You know how every year the stores put out their Holiday gear a little earlier than the year before, and every year the same old lady walks down the aisle of candy canes and shakes her head in disapproval. "What happened to Thanksgiving?" or "My goodness, it's not even December for heavens sake" she mutters as she saunters down the aisle...three boxes of candy canes in her cart. Well I am not one of those people! I am the other person, who much to the chagrin of the old lady, is all but doing cart wheels down the candy cane aisle. " WooYhoo!" you might hear me shout or "Screw Thanksgiving, I can eat Turkey any day...bring on Christmas!" That's right I( and many more like me) are the reason Walmart starts sneaking in Christmas Items right after Labor day. I am a sucker for all things Christmas! I spend hours with my poor toddler in the Walmart. We push the cart up and down the Holiday aisle, and I point out every possible Item. I can feel the old lady eyes glaring as I say things like "Oh look little J, its tiny gingerbread man sprinkles, wouldn't they be cute on our cookies?" or "How about that, it's a Santa waffle Iron, wouldn't that be fun?" or "Wow, can you believe it? It's a plastic singing bass wearing a Santa hat. Wouldn't our family and friends love to find that under their tree this year?!" What?... You don't want the singing Santa Bass? Well I wish I would have known that this morning!

This is my time of year! I am absolutely not ashamed to admit that at this very moment there is sugar cookie dough chilling in my fridge, and by this afternoon it will be stamped into an amazing array of Christmas Characters. Sunday after Church I took my children to see Santa (our local drug store was having a Holiday open house and giving free pictures, so why not?), and on the drive home my husband and I had a lengthy discussion about the placement of our Christmas tree (which if it were not for the fact that it would be a crispy brown fire hazard by Christmas, I would totally go get it today!) I began subjecting my family to Christmas music the day after Halloween, and am already scanning the local newspaper for any local Holiday happenings,I can drag them to. I am a Christmas freak! So I say THANK YOU Walmart!!! Thanks for starting Christmas earlier every year, even if it does piss off the old ladies! Maybe someday I will be able to go into your store the day after Easter and do some cart wheels down your candy cane aisle, but until then I have some visions of sugar plumbs dancing I must get too...