seasons

Being a Wisconsinite I have been spoiled by the idea of four seasons. My mom's best friend moved down to Arizona two years ago from Wisconsin. Her children will telling me how much they missed all the seasons and how Christmas really didn't feel like Christmas without the snow. After they showed me the depressing picture of their attempt of a Christmas tree cactus, I had to imagine what a snow less holiday season would be like.Try harder to even imagine a Halloween or Thanksgiving without leaves changing colors and creating big colorful blankets on the grass.

Thinking back on my childhood holidays the environment and aroma's are what come to my mind first. Racking leaves for the neighbors for a little extra cash, the cold breeze in my face with my wind burned nose, the fog steaming up your glasses whenever I got inside, and that initial burning of your tongue and throat from drinking my hot cocoa to early. Even with winter having snow ball fights with the neighbors and sledding down their what seemed to have been massive at the time hill, my entire face being flush red, my hands being frozen even though I was wearing gloves because somehow snow always managed to get inside them.

I can't imagine spending the holidays anywhere but my home...Wisconsin, just trying to imagine how my family friend's kid's celebrate Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years without all the seasons that tag along respectively...it honestly saddens me. I personally believe kids need to experience wearing their coats under their Halloween costume because it gets so cold at night, or having a snowball fight, or watch the first snow fall, or the the breath taking view of the fall foliage. Can you imagine the magic of the seasons without all of  mother nature throwing you for a curve every step of the way?