Jingle Bells, Jingle bells

  YES!!!!  It's Christmas in September!  Well, it's Christmas in September at my house, because if I want to get anything done in the handmade department, it must be done early.  Besides, it makes me happy.  All the color, all the anticipation of enjoyment by the recipient, all the fun of making something with my own two hands, knowing the item will be appreciated for years to come - I love it all.  That said, it's still summertime.  Yaaaay!!!  This has not been a "normal" summer for this household.  It has involved a lot of activities outside our realm of comfort.  In this house, we like comfort a whole lot.  I bet you like it, too, but sometimes life is like a river and it gets dammed up or floods or dries up or changes course and it's really, really, really difficult to adjust to those changes.  Especially if you're like me, and you don't welcome change in your life and you want that river to just flow nicely and allow you to float in your little inner tube and look at the pretty blue sky with the puffy clouds.  I think my life is pretty much perfect and when something comes along and upsets all that perfection wink wink I just about lose it.  I've been losing it for several months this summer, but I realize that I still have some time to jump in my inner tube and float.  I'm really trying to do that.  And making Christmas in September is a happy way to float.  And I do believe the recipient of the item will be quite happy and I like that thought.  Obviously, I have some days left on this Christmas in September project, but that's part of the floating.  I hope you still have some floating days in this summertime.  I remember a realization that smacked upside my head when I was 9, walking to my piano lesson.  I remember thinking, "This is the only day it will be October 23, 1960."  So remember that gem.  I was a genius philosopher even then.  But you already assumed that, didn't you?