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I live in California.
One of the biggest things I miss about Wisconsin is the seasons. We have seasons there. You know the kind. Winter with snow... Spring with flowers and everything blooming... Summer with heat waves and swimming and camping... Fall with the changing of the colors... and then back to the Winter with the snow.
California doesn't have seasons. We have hot... hella hot... hotter than hell hot... and rain.
This doesn't make me a happy person when it comes to Christmas. This time of year (even though Wisconsin has even been lacking on the snow for Christmas lately), I associate with snow. What is Christmas without snow?
Well this year I am in luck. We are heading home for the holidays and I am super excited. Sure, I get to see my family and friends. I miss them too. But who would have ever thought I would miss the snow as well.
Now I know what everybody is saying. Well, you could just drive up to the snow where you live. But it isn't the same. There is just something about being able to sit by a window drinking hot cocoa, listening to Christmas music, while watching a nice blanket of snow fall. We don't get that here. We get rain.
Rain is just messy, gross and gloomy. There is just something about snow that makes the gloom just disappear. So this year... I am dreaming about a White Christmas! (Preferably not while we are making the drive to or from Wisconsin - but sometime in the middle of the trip!) I want to see the snow and I want to play in the snow. I want my kids to enjoy the snow.
As of right now, we will be heading back to Wisconsin in a few short weeks. Which is why it only makes sense to spotlight this song for Music Monday:
Bing Crosby's White Christmas!
What do you guys all think? Do you find it difficult to be in the holiday spirit without the change of the seasons?
Oh I love your Monday music choice even if I am not a snow lover. I live in NY, where we get seasons, but as I write this today it is 63 degrees and warm for us in December today. So not complaining though, because I hate the snow. Seriously though thanks for sharing and hope you have a wonderful time when you go home to Wisconsin for a few weeks :) :)
ReplyDeleteYou know - I was like that right before we moved from Wisconsin. And it isn't that I want a lot of snow... just some to get the season started. And then it can go away. But after two years without it... it is funny admitting that you missed it!
DeleteOh, I'm jealous! I live in South Carolina, so we do have seasons. Alas, we almost never have snow for Christmas. I would much rather have a crisp clear cold snow than the icky dangerous ice we usually get hit with here!
ReplyDeleteYikes... I would hate the ice as well.. the snow is so much better. But I have to say... seasons make Christmas. I can't imagine not having it.
DeleteI am happy with the surroundings getting illuminated and people walking a slow pace. This itself makes me happy since my family is in India and if I wanna enjoy snow and Christmas...gotta go to Tahoe :)
ReplyDeleteStay warm with your family, Stacy :)
I love this time of year... I guess I am conditioned to think that snow and Chrismtas go hand in hand. I hate the idea of having to drive to the snow! :(
DeleteI hope you will have your white Christmas this year! :)Where we are in CT, it's a 50/50 chance. I hopeing for white myself. It just feels right.
ReplyDeleteI agree... it just feels right! :)
DeleteTotally agree. Being Australian and from Sydney I never even saw snow until I was in my twenties. Like California, it's either mild, hot, very hot or heatwave. Christmas day is always a scorching hot steamy day and I hate it. Now that I live in England and have four proper seasons and a bit of snow as well I LOVE IT. Australia can have it's awful heat, I'm staying put in my lovely seasonal weather.
ReplyDeleteI consider myself lucky because I grew up knowing snow and Christmas hand in hand. My husband thinks its weird. Than again, he is from California so that is what he is used to!
DeleteI'm with you, Stacy. We have nothing but rain in Oregon, too, and I'm working really hard to get out of my funk this Christmas season. I'm sure you and your family will LOVE Christmas at home.
ReplyDeleteIt is definitely going to be wonderful. We have a nice long vacation which will probably go by way too fast! I can't wait! :)
DeleteI live in Florida, so snow has never really been a part of the season for me. Although since living in Central Florida for the past 8 years, I have become accustomed to the colder winters. This winter has been very mild compared to previous ones. It just doesn't feel like winter without some 30 - 40 degree weather!
ReplyDeleteI am a Midwest gal, so Christmases were generally white for me. Now I live in Colorado, and it's hit or miss whether we get a white Christmas, or a 60 degree+ Christmas. It feels wrong to complain about such mild weather, but it doesn't feel the same without snow! Have a fantastic trip, and stay healthy!
ReplyDeleteI agree that it feels weird to be in a warm climate during Christmas, especially if you didn't grow up that way...I hope you get your Wisconsin white Christmas!!
ReplyDeleteI'm with Janine in both being in the Northeast where there can be season and in hating snow (I am one of those people who starts feeling cold at the end of October and does not feel warm again until at the end of May).
ReplyDeleteFortunately I lack a developed holiday sensibility... mostly I focus on getting to December 21st which I have long regarded as the end of winter, solely on the basis of the fact that the days begin to get longer after the 21st and that is what is good about Summer. Long day light hours.
I can relate...after going to CO for Thanksgiving...whew! But on the white Christmas front - I love the seasons. I'm always cold and would welcome the Florida heat anytime except November and December. Hehe. Then, I require snow. I feel ya there.
ReplyDeleteOoooh! I wish we had snow here over Christmas! We've only ever had summer and heat at Christmas. Usually we'd sit and eat outside next to the pool. Very different from yours I'm sure! One day we'll experience a white Christmas...one day...until then, I'll just be daydreaming along to your song! Thanks! :)
ReplyDeleteWonderful music choice! Nostalgia and tradition at it's finest. Make snow angels and take pictures for your fridge!
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