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Thursday, April 25, 2013

Eight Months Until Christmas

What's that? It's eight months until Christmas?
Hiya, Big People!  Guess what?!  There's only eight months until Christmas!  Didja know that?

...Hey!  Why are you throwing things at me?  That isn't very nice!  I'm just stating a fact!  Today's the twenty-fifth of April, and Christmas is the twenty-fifth of December!  That's eight months!  Don't be mad at the messenger, Big People!

Don't worry!  I'm not trying to rush us through the summer.  I love the summer.  I get to swim in my mushroom swimming pool, and wear a big sunhat, and listen to the peepers at night, and also, I get to see Aunt Colleen and Uncle Lorentz a lot more during the summer months than I get to see them during the winter months.

But a fact's a fact, and the fact is it's eight months until Christmas, and I, for one, wanna make sure I'm ready.

I'm a think-ahead kinda gal, when it comes right down to it.
I might have brought my Christmas list along today.

It doesn't hurt to be prepared, you know.  Why there are some organizations that use the phrase "Be Prepared" as their motto.  I think it's a good way to live.

So I've made out my Christmas list.  Not for what I want.  I still don't know yet.  Well, maybe I want a me-sized tractor, since that Mommy hogs our big tractor.  Or maybe I'd like a Power Wheels Jeep, since I outgrew my Pink Jeep. 

Mommy still hasn't forgiven me for outgrowing my Pink Jeep.  I can tell.  She keeps bringing it up about having Daddy take my Pink Jeep up to the attic.  And I said to her, "Mommy, just let it go!  I'm just doing my job, growing out of stuff, so I can grow into cooler, more expensive stuff!"

She didn't like hearing that come out of my mouth, either.

I did bring it! I won't apologize for being prepared!
So I'm putting that Power Wheels Jeep on the back-burner for the time-being.  Laying kinda low until Mommy finally just builds a bridge and gets over me outgrowing my Pink Jeep.

In the meantime, I've compiled a list of things I want to be on the lookout for, for my friends and family and coworkers, for me to give to them for Christmas.  Sometimes I'm allowed out and about, and other times I get on the World Wide Web. ... Friends, did you know the Internet's a veritable emporium of goods to purchase?  It is!

And I like to think about Christmas as I go throughout the year, so when something catches my eye that I think would go nice to somebody I love, I can snap it right up.  Why wait until December? 

See, Big People, I've had two Christmases under my belt so far, and they both kinda snuck up on me, and I said to myself 'Zoe, third time's a charm.  No more last-minute shoppy-shoppy when the calendar turns to December!'  and this year, by golly, I'm living that. 

Making lists is easy. Keeping them secret is hard!
Well, I'm gonna live it.  I have my list all made out.  I just haven't put it into action yet.  Keeping my eyes open, watching for sales and steals and deals.  That kind of thing.

You know who taught me that?  My friend Santa Claus.  He said if he waited until December to think about Christmas, he'd be in BIG trouble.

Now, you might have noticed that I haven't given away any specifics about my Christmas list.  Of course I haven't!  Why would I do something like that?  I like to keep my presents a surprise!  It's all for me to know, and everybody else to wonder about.

Until Christmas, that is.  Which is eight months away.

Now do you see why somebody like me would get all excited about something like that, so far ahead of time, Friends?

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