Beginning To Feel A Lot Like

Last weekend, we put on hats and scarves and headed over to Nyack in search of Christmas ornaments, because we only have a couple of weeks to go and I wanted to jump-start our family into a holiday kind of mood. We bought sparkly owls and ferocious lions, and then went home and hung them on our tree, and it was lovely. Not Christmas, exactly, not yet…but almost.

The thing is, these past few years I’ve had trouble getting into the Christmas spirit. Of course the magic you feel when you’re a kid...