Oh By Gosh, By Golly
by Amanda on December 2, 2009
32 Christmases: Summer, decking halls in t shirts, cherries and plums, gardenias, Carols by Candlelight during daylight savings, fake trees with fake snow, Christmas pageants outdoors in the sun, beach parties, putting up Christmas lights in the heat, Christmas drinks BBQs, searching the 4 TV stations for Christmas specials, only imagining what a White Christmas could be like, walking the summer nights looking at Christmas lights, swimming pools, Christmas morning in summer pyjamas, brandy flavoured Christmas pudding, fake snow on the windows, Santas earning their money wearing a beard and that outfit in 35 degree heat, bon bons, Christmas ham, Havaianas for Christmas presents and playing cricket in the street on Christmas Day.
Christmas 2009: Christmas lights up EVERYWHERE, Holiday log channel (a Christmas carol playing burning log fire) all through December, the possibility of snow, flannel reindeer pyjamas, 25 days of Christmas specials, Christmas tree lots(!), Charlie Brown Christmas album playing in all the stores, professional Christmas light landscapers, Christmas crackers, lighting of the New York Rockefeller Centre Christmas tree, cinnamon smell in the bookstores, Griswold is on TV every day until Christmas!
I‘ve spent one Christmas in Vancouver before but we arrived 3 days before the big day and it was snowless. This year I am here for the whole shebang and I’m already loving it. It feels weird to smell log fires burning and see Christmas wreaths on front doors at the same time but it’s also kind of fabulous.
I awoke this morning to frost. Frost happens in Australia but it’s usually gone by 8am. This hung around all day and to me it looked like snow. I’m still not convinced.
So you are warned, dear readers. I am waiting.
Waiting for snow.
Come and get me snow flakes!
hi amanda! you’ve got such a lovely blog here. :) adore it!
and snow, i love the whole idea of it! if only it snowed where i’m at. if only.
maybe its time you believe it’s snow. :)
xx
oh oh oh! I hope you get snow!! I call the frost “snow” as well – here, it mostly only ever frosts, but every now and then it snows, and it is oh so romantic. So different to our hot christmases isn’t it? xo
wow. my jealousy right now is unbearable.
a white Christmas sounds like perfection.
Hear, hear! Bring on the snow!
Hi ladies, more frost this morning. It sits on the rooves! I can feel the snow getting closer.
Pia, it is SO different.
Don’t worry, the snow will come eventually. Usually it doesn’t last for long in Vancouver, and the city never knows how to deal with it so everything shuts down (except for coffee shops!).
We usually get about a week or so of snow here every year. The long term forecast is showing possible snowflakes next week! Weeee! I love snow too.
oh man.
we had tons of snow last year. in the valley – just outside of the city and it stayed until late January. I have big hopes – but be warned the city pretty much goes into chaos mode when the snow comes.
Hello Amanda. I totally agree with you : snow is magic ! Yet, I can tell you, I spent my early childhood in Quebec, and you can really get too much of it. Snow lasts something like 4-5 month there, and when I came to Paris, a no snow winter was sooo exotic. But now I’d love to have a lit more of it … And apart from the snow, I miss very much the traditionnal Christmas-ey atmosphere that you find in North America, in England, or in Germany. We don’t have so much of it here. You know : Christmas trees, red and green, carols singing, … Hard to find the perfect place ;o)
What a lovely blog! I hope you get to see a beautiful white Christmas :)
xo Bree
Yes, I’ve been told about how Vancouver goes a little nutsy in snow.
My lil iPhone weather map is saying snow for Sunday.
Catherine, finding the perfect place is tricky. It is very Christmassy here, it’s quite amazing how everyone gets into it. I’d LOVE to go to the Christmas markets in Germany some time.
Thanks Bree!
I love reading all of your genuinely excited responses to your new home! It really gives me a different perspective on things — I spent the holidays in Brazil one year, and it was so interesting to see the ways that they incorporated the wintry European/North American themes into their own very summery, beach holiday…it was fun, but I definitely missed the snow and the fireplace!
Cheers,
Tara