To be or not to be... What a silly question!

We were in such a euphoria last night. I worked out at the antique mall yesterday late afternoon, trying to re-merchandise my booth and make it more appealing. When I got done, I thought, Hey! Why not invite your eldest son over for supper!? So I called him. I'm so glad he was home! I picked him up and brought him home with me, then asked Robb (hubby) to make supper. He had been out of town all weekend and this single parenting thing pooped me out.

After supper, I let Maddy drive as we took Ryan back home. We'd had a good time visiting and he found a couple more things in the house that he wanted to take off to his new home... Cardtable, underwear, you know.. the important things. Maddy is doing a very good job of driving, even in the dark. I think she'll be ready for her drivers license next October without any problems.

So anyway, back to the story... After we dropped Ryan off, Maddy flicked on the radio to 104.1, our favorite easy listening channel. The music was a Christmas song! A real oldie! You could almost hear the scratching of a record needle on it, it was that old.

The screaming began and she almost drove off the road. Remind me after she gets her drivers license to have her stay off the road until well into the Christmas season....

Oh, make no mistake... it was happy screaming! We love Christmas at our house. The girls can't wait to put up the tree and they want it now... Maddy and I sang along with the Christmas music all the way home and didn't get out of the car until The First Noel got done at full blast. Then she dashed into the house to turn on the radio inside so Robb and Meri could hear too. Robb was thrilled... (dripping of sarcasm here...) He doesn't believe in Christmas music before Thanksgiving... but I do. I've heard it!

Maddy and I discovered something about ourselves... We do love the Christmas music, but you know what?! When a whole 10 months pass, we've forgotten a ton of the words. We did a lot of "sounds like" words and la la las to fill in the blank areas that we've spaced out on throughout the year.

I think there is only one cure. To listen to as much as possible in the next 2 months and relearn them all.

So this morning, Maddy came upstairs looking very dejected. Apparently the Christmas music was only on the Delilah show and only last night. SIGH...

It DID get her in the Christmassy mood tho last night and she emailed me a Christmas list of suggestions...