The Snowman Conspiracy (1)

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12 Nov 2007 12:25 PM

Is a snowman a fun loving holiday icon or a clever conspiracy? You decide.

It finally happened, late last night. The kids fell asleep to the sounds of a cracking fire in the fireplace and the last lines "There's no place like home" from "The Wizard of Oz." As my husband carried the little ones off to bed, I padded through the house adjusting the thermostat, turning off the lights and cleaning up stray toys. As I headed back into the family room, I spotted something on the stair rail. Just another discarded sock, I thought, and sighed aloud. But when I got closer I saw it! Right there on the chair rail. it was...it was...oh how can I say this..it was a snowman!

Now, you have to understand that my husband and I have an unspoken pact. There is to be no Christmas anything before Thanksgiving. Despite what the stores do, despite that we are signing up for holiday events (pre-registering is okay, since these things do fill up), despite the neighbor's blow up lawn snowmen, despite all of this, there are to be no outward references to the winter or Christmas until the Turkey is at least purchased from the store.

Okay, so I did turn on Christmas music on Saturday, downstairs where my husband was serving breakfast to the kids, while I scooted upstairs to take a shower. Hee hee. But that was just a joke, right? Or...did I open the door to something more well, obsessive?

You may not have noticed this phenomena, but, well, I have. Snowmen (and snow women) are everywhere these days. Now, I'm not just talking about the fact that there is not a Hallmark store in the country where you won't find at least 126 different varieties of snow people to decorate your home. That has always been the case. But slowly, snowmen are sneaking into everything, as if anxious to take over the world. Hallmark might have just been the way to get their little booted feet in the door.

Find out what happens next in The Snowman Conspiracy (2)

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jonesx6 (1606) 13 Nov 2007 05:57 AM

Too funny!! I refuse to put up Christmas decorations until Thanksgiving is over. Something I noticed last week is the amount of Christmas commericals on TV already. Just a few years ago you never saw these commercials until Thanksgiving Day. Laura

Mary Ann Romans (26886) 13 Nov 2007 07:05 AM

I rember that the first time we ever saw Santa was at the end of the Thanksgiving parade.