Holidaze

It’s getting close to Halloween. I have never really cared much about the holidays. We never decorated. We didn’t really celebrate anything but Thanksgiving and that’s because everybody in my family, myself included, loves food. Anytime we get together, there is always a lot of food.  My girlfriend loves Halloween and Christmas. For the last few months she’s been picking up random withes and ghosts and pumpkins. Every time I get home from work, there’s another decoration up. It makes her so happy to have a house to decorate. It’s so different than what I grew up in. Her favorite holiday is Christmas. She starts her shopping in July. I always tell her not to get me anything, but she always does. It doesn’t matter how many times I tell her that I don’t want anything, that I don’t need anything. She loves getting gifts for everybody. She’ll put our tree up on December 1^st and it’ll be up until she feels like taking it down, usually in the middle of January. She keeps talking about getting decorations for outside. I have to put lights on the house this year. She told me that as soon as we bought the house.  I like seeing her happy, though, so I’m going to put up lights, and decorate the tree with her. I like starting these new traditions with her.  I know that it’s something that is going to get a little bit crazy when she and I have kids, but I’m looking forward to seeing that, too. She always talks about all the things she wants to do around Christmas. She wants to make advent calendars, hot chocolate, watch Christmas movies on Christmas Eve. I still am not a huge fan of the holidays, but they are certainly growing on me, the longer we’re together. She just has so much holiday spirit.