AM I ready For Christmas - NOT

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Well folks, here it is once again, the Christmas season, and as per my usual I'm scrambling to get it all together. How is it possible that this one special holiday that comes on the same date every year can throw so many of us out of kilter?This past January I did very well, I made up my list of things to do and create, buy and send for the coming Christmas of 2007....Well to begin, I lost that list, my great ideas were gone, pffft out the window, or even, heaven forbid, into the nearest landfill site, who knows? Now in the March I began once again to get myself into the swing of things to be done, but ahhhhh life had a better hurdle for me to jump over, we had major water damage occur inside the house which needed immediate attention and then I had to decide about renovations to clean up the mess the water left behind. Then the month of May arrived bringing with it the promise of spring and work to be done in the gardens, anything not to have to be stuck indoors....I played in the garden all spring and it was wonderful and by then I had convinced myself that summer would soon be here and I would have lots of time to devote to thinking and planning for Christmas. Now who would be inside in summer? Now I don't know about you, but I just couldn't bring myself to think Christmas whatwith all that glorious sunshine, beaches to swim at, a tan to consider, watching boats on the river, bar-b-que's to devour and picnics to attend, so much to do in summer.....FUN fun fun, one doesn't think of Christmas in summer, that simply wouldn't do.... Finally, I hear of fall exibitions, the harvests from the gardens to be dealt washed, diced, sliced and canned, halloween to prepare for, pumpkins to carve and their seeds baked, the fall colours to enjoy and clearing off the decks and storing the summer furniture away, hobgoblins and witches to greet, and a bountiful Thanksgiving on its way....these wonders just couldn't be ignored. I lolligagged around so much that I just didn't think Christmas at all, nope, not one nannosecond did I offer up to Christmas.... Forget Novemeber, I wasted that too giving myself a much needed rest from the past several months filled with activities.... Now you'd think that with the onset of December I would now be alerted to the annual advent of Christmas, what with sub-zero temperatures and a few good snowfalls, well, not so, here I find it is already the 14th and I am beside myself without sufficient time to think logically. I found one gift for mother, which I am certain she'll say she doesn't really need and may take back and another for my brother and his wife, hey thats' three down and about twenty more to go...not bad for such a procrastinator...seeing I only had 354 days to get it all together.... I once was a very organized woman, someone who had a family, a house and a demanding job and would have everything bought, wrapped, prepared, labeled, menu planned and cards with the annual christmas letter done, mailed, with only the meal to cook left to be done on Christmas day - I'd love to find that over achiever I once was, and if you do find her, please, mail her back to me, I promise to open it sometime in the new year. With the promise of a New Year facing me once again maybe there's a Christmas Coach out there - ya think? May you all enjoy the season and as you go forward into 2008 may it be a wonderous one filled with good health, a great adventure with much laughter and great memories.