Christmas Is All Around

I feel it in my fingers,
I feel it in my toes,
Christmas is all around me,
and so the feeling grows
It’s written in the wind,
It’s everywhere I go…
(Christmas Is All Around from my favorite Christmas movie, Love, Actually)

Good morning, lovely customers of our little local market of love!

Last night found me in Columbus in the midst of all the other Christmas shoppers. I have spent my month, shopping small, in small towns, and last night I had to hit the bigger town, with bigger shops, to mark a few desires off the Christmas list that has been mocking me in my bag of tricks.

I was not sure how it would end. Would it be a mania of me not finding anything left? Pushy people with bad attitude? Overly heated stores with people in my personal space? Who knew how things would go…but I was about to find out.

To make sure I started in a good mood, I picked a cute vintage outfit complete with a little vintage white hat that I like to call myself the ice princess when I wear it. I picked a Rolling Stones heavy playlist for the drive. Their early, early, less commercial stuff. The B sides of more popular songs. And, a coffee to go. I was on my way.

It was cold but I chose an outside venue for shopping because I like the thrill of the cold, the lights, the music that was tinkling in and out of each store. I was bundled and ready.

And guess what…it was just what I needed. The people were all happy!! Shoppers and store workers were amazing! I ran into an old friend and we chatted and laughed. Each store was more helpful than the last. The items I needed for my list were all there, and some even on way the heck great sales! People kept stopping me to ask about my outfit! (Okay, not going to lie, this always floats my boat) And, when I went to get more coffee, the employee told me that he was paying for it because I looked like Christmas…what?? (Not going to lie, again, I could get used to that)

Anyway…on the drive home, I reflected on the day, and with each pass through the store doors, with each light, with each Christmas song, with each person passing me with a smile, a hello, and watching the fun groups going into some of the pubs, I was, once again, filled with happiness that Christmas really is all around us.

And, while it happened when I was shopping was not the point. It was the attitude and feeling that was taking place. A kindness, a love, even a gentle ebb and flow of hope…

So, while I am all about keeping it small, keeping it local, keeping it at our market, it was good for me to be out and about in the sea of Christmas shoppers, to know that there is love, everywhere…

Especially at this little market…

So, while you are out and about in your Christmas haze of shopping, merry making, cooking baking, cocktail drinking, present wrapping, carol singing…think about us, think about last minute local gifts, think about shopping us for your holiday weekend needs…

Christmas is all around…

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam