SPT - Getting into the holiday spirit....

Yep, had to steal an idea for today's post - so I'm grabbing the SPT from Kris's blog.

How do we get into the holiday spirit? Well, since I've been wearing thin w/ Howie being sick lately - it's been difficult...that coupled with the fact that it's in the upper 80's and will be in the lower 90's tomorrow! It doesn't "feel" holiday-ish!

Growing up in Texas, we had some fun holiday preparations - things leading up to the holidays...I remember we had these gas space heaters - lets say it looked EXACTLY like this:

and my dad wouldn't let us turn it on unless the temperature outside was 50. So we would call "time & temp" every 5 minutes waiting for the temp to change from 53 down to 50!

When it finally did, we danced around and then fought about who got to be in the center of the space heater! Miraculously no one was significantly burned! But I remember when the space heater went on - the decorations went up shortly thereafter!

Also - Dad wouldn't let us start listening to Christmas music until December 1st. Even though everyone else listened to it the day after Thanksgiving...BUT we did get to listen to it through the END of December, so we were kind of special that way!

One of my favorite songs was this song sung by Barbara Striesand - "Jingle Bells"
(it's a bad recording, but the good recording didn't enable embedding!!)

That's a fun song to wear the kids out - we would run around in circles around the space heater until someone ended up with waffle marks on their back...okay - not really - I don't know how any of us escaped serious injury from that space heater!

So - for gettin THIS family in the holiday spirit - we will have to wait until Thanksgiving when we pull the stuff out & start decorating! Yep, rebelling against my childhood traditions of not listening to Christmas music until December 1st! We hit the sounds on Thanksgiving!