winter

Ya know, I don't love winter. I don't love the snow and I'm definitely not fond of the cold. However, I feel there is a certain kind a magic that exists only in the winter. To me, winter means layering clothes and having lots of warm blankets available, sitting on the heater vents and drinking hot cocoa or wassail. Warm fuzzy socks, hats, gloves, leg and arm warmers, and scarfs all add to the wintery feel {and quite honestly I couldn't do winter without them}.

In high school I had an English class assignment one year where we were asked to write our thoughts on winter. I like the poem I wrote because even though it doesn't express how wonderful winter is {or anything like that} I feel like it still captures the magic I feel in it.

WINTER NIGHT

wind chimes sing as a breeze blows 

snowflakes fall on my lashes and nose 

christmas lights twinkle like the stars 

while hearing distant screeching cars 

airplanes fly up in the air 

leaves fall from the trees, leaving them bare 

deep and dark clouds fill up the sky 

cold settles in as i see my breath fly

hovering like fog on a night just like this

the air bites and stings as i'm being wind-kissed

The only other poem I've ever written about winter is a little more depressing :( but I feel like winter is a combination of those two things: magical and depressing. I'm not sure if that really makes sense but really I can only take so much of it. Christmas is definitely one of my most favorite holidays but winter is my least favorite season. I think Christmas is in the winter time to help me through it :)

i don't know if i can make it through another winter 

~ overcast ~ trees bare ~ 

you could see the sadness hovering in the air 

i want to dust it ~ clean it out ~ 

need the sun to wash away my doubt 

feel the warmth back on my skin 

and other places i'd forget it'd been

and yet it all reminds me of you 

why is trying to forget so hard to do? 

i can't let myself miss you like i miss the sun 

i'm torn between wanting you and being done

It's barely even snowed this winter and I'm already starting to miss the sun and how good it feels to be warm all over! I'm so glad there is still Christmas to look forward to :)
{which I'm super extra excited for this year-maybe because we get 2! Christmases, maybe because we get to see so much family, or maybe because I feel the love of my Savior and have so many wonderful blessings in my life~ I'm just so excited about all of it!}.

Perhaps in February I will make Nate take me to Brazil where they will be having their summer . . . ?