I talked about it being dark last time?

I just read my last post which was from about a month ago, and I noticed I talked a lot about how dark it is getting.  What was I thinking.  This week I watched the sunset starting during my last class of the day....at 3:30pm.  Now that's getting dark.  Morning comes at 8am.  And we still have more than a month to go before the solstice.  I've been warned to expect 10:00-2:30 kind of daylight, and I'm very interested to see what that will feel like.  Because this is now as dark as it ever gets in Toronto, maybe a little darker.  And I would love to write about something new, but really this is an overriding fact of life here right now.  It's a little easier to stay up past 7pm, but so hard to get up in the morning.  Both Kevin and I feel like we pick up Beth from daycare in "the middle of the night".  And everyone is telling us how lucky we are this year.  How this is the warmest and nicest fall they've had in 130 years !    Yikes.  There is no snow yet, to which I'm grateful, and it does not rain everyday to which I'm also grateful, but we haven't seen the sun now in 3 or 4 weeks, which is a little rough.

It has started to put me in the mood for Christmas.  We went to Ikea and bought lights and a beautiful light up paper star, which is very common here, and a Christmas tree.  Beth and I watched our first Christmas special today, a classic "Muppet Family Christmas" and she danced through most of the songs.  I think it will be very fun with her this year.  I am looking forward to playing carols with her, and helping to make cookies (she learned how to cut them out at daycare) and her starting to be aware that something special is happening in this time of year.  At work we were discussing that as adults we spend a lot of our time at christmas recreating the parts from our youth that were magical to us, because that was when the holiday was its most exciting.  I would say that's true, but now that I have my own child I find I am focusing more on making sure that those memories are created for her and that this is an exciting and fun time.  She has years to be jaded by commercialism and family pressures.  I'd like to give her at least a few of magic and wonder.