Just Hear Those Sleigh Bells Jingling

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It's only 117 days until Christmas. Nope... not kidding. 


Wow! Where has this year gone? I love Christmas just as much as anyone, Ok I take that back, I'm obsessed with Christmas. Infact, I've had a Christmas tree up permanently since September of 2009. Granted it's only 4 feet tall, but still... obviously I'm dedicated. 

picking out a tree, 2010

With the Christmas season getting closer and closer (I mean hello, Hobby Lobby has had their Christmas decorations in stores for at least a month now), I've come up with a pipe dream for this years holiday season. Actually... I've been dreaming big. I've got two pipe dreams. 

Pipe Dream #1- If you've been reading this blog for awhile or know me in real life, then you know that I have a deep love and history of traveling to Pigeon Forge/Gaitlinburg, TN. I've been going there since I was a little girl and I'd estimate that I've been there over 50 times. I'm actually low balling the number, it's probably more. Anyways, I love the holiday season there. The area has Christmas lights up all over town. The theaters do special Christmas theme shows, the best Christmas decorations store, The Christmas Shoppe is there and there's just so much to do there. 


Well the one thing I've never done while in PF/Gaitlinburg is rent a cabin. Shocking, I know. This holiday season I'd love to be able to rent a great cabin, gather up some family or friends and just head there for a couple of days. 

It would be so much fun to hit the town with a group of friends or family. We could see the sights, do some Christmas shopping and enjoy the cabin and do old, fun things like play board games. Maybe I'm lame but I think it would be a blast! 

Pipe Dream #2- The Big Apple. I've traveled all over the United States and been overseas but I have yet to visit New York City. I think it would be amazing to see the city at Christmas time. 

There's so much to see and do in the city. There's ice skating in central park, there the tree in Rockefeller Center. There's Radio City Music Hall with the Rockettes and so much more! The Statue of Liberty is there for goodness sakes! Plus there's all the shopping and home girl, loves to vintage shop and it's the mecca! 

I would love to be able to do either of these trips this holiday season. Sadly, their both pipe dreams for a reason. I've been saving all of my leave time so I can have enough time to move cross country plus... I doubt I could get off work anyways. Why does life have to get in the way of having fun and traveling? I need to win the lottery.... NOW! 

So if you had one pipe dream for the upcoming holiday season what would yours be? 

Miss Cleo or Divine Intervention?

Ring ring..... could I be the new Miss Cleo? Anyone remember her? 

I think I've become the new Miss Cleo...minus the 1800 number, lawsuits and jail time. For the past week I've had the most vivid, crazy dreams. For some people this is normal but for me it isn't. I rarely dream and if I do, I never remember them. So when I have a reoccurring dream or an actual dream that I can remember it usually affects me and my day.

I usually don't think anything of the dreams. I shrug them off as nothing and tell myself they were either caused by something I ate, something I've read or something I've seen in a movie or on television. However, this week one dream has profoundly effected me. To explain it, I'm going to have to give a little back story. Bare with me. 

Near the end of 2007, I got extremely sick. I was having serious stomach problems. I became so sick that one night after months of feeling horrible, seeing doctors and never getting answers that I begged God to either just let me die (which I'm extremely afraid of) or to get better. At that point in my life, God and I had had it out multiple times. I was struggling to believe in anything but I was raised in a very religious family so when I got sick, I looked for answers. Months later I finally started getting better and after a year I was basically back to normal days of feeling ok. Yet, this time I felt different. I started saying a nightly pray. AND if you know me, then you know that was a big step for me to take. When I don't understand things, or don't know what to do, or I have a day where I feel sick, I always go address it in my nightly prayer. 

So...this leads me back to the dreams. At the start of this week, I said my nightly prayers and went to bed. I woke up and I could remember the entire dream I'd just had. In the dream someone I knew and had once dated was getting engaged. In the dream I was there, watching it unfold. I shrugged off the dream and went on with me day. A few hours later, I'm at work and I find out that the person in my dream... got engaged. It scared the crap out of me. Why? Because I may or may not have mentioned them in my nightly pow wow with God. Now, why am I talking about this? I seriously believe that God was preparing me for it. I think he knew that I needed the heads up. And I've had 2 other come true dreams this week, hence the miss cleo (seeing the future) reference. 

Now you can laugh or call me crazy or think that I've seriously went off the deep end but I really do think that I was given that dream. And a few years ago, if I would have read this I would have thought, wow that girl is losing it. Now... not so much. I mean do you ever feel like God has intervened in your life problems?