The Weather Outside Is SO NOT Frightful...

Half an hour away from Winter Solstice.  Many pieces of the season have felt unseasonable! Is it the Charlie Brown-ing inside my home? Has the lesser lack of funds changed up the gift giving to a degree that seems Bah Humbug? Or just maybe the unrainy, rarely blustery weather has my holiday mood held hostage? I know better than to dream of a white Christmas. That just doesn't happen in these parts...



{photo via Internet}


we instead have ~

and ~

Hubby and I will probably go to the beach on Christmas day. Quite the California holiday. I'm sure to find some spirit surf side. It just won't be the same... but, nothing much about the end of this year has been!!