To be this excited for winter?

[Whimsicalwillows]

Lately i have been getting quiet tingles of reckless excitement that the dark cosy nights are on tne way....
I am itching to have fun with the dc on halloween, baking spooky treats, making enchanted creations, carving pumpkins and sticking some orange lights up just for us! I'm even more excited at the thought of decorating the house with Christmas sparkles and wrapping presents with ribbon, buying in festive foods, crisp winter walks and drinking copious amounts of marshmallow cream topped hot choc (sod it i might even buy the silk hot chocolate maker I've wanted for ages!) i want to do it all properly this year and include all the little sweet traditions like baking gingerbread men, hanging little chocolates on the tree and matching family pjs! I want it to ne straight out of a true movie! I am already waiting for the Christmas slots to open so i can order some indulgent festive foods. I feel i want to go a little out my comfort zone and try some new things like baked camembert with fancy bits to dip in (no idea why i haven't had this before!)

My excitement is beginning to overwhlem me so i have had to vent! Anybody else feeling wonderfully impatient or AIBU?

No, because it's dark and just rains. Roll on April.

I love it! ❤️ DH and I are the only ones in our family!
It'll be even more special this year as our DD is 15 months now and DS is 8 weeks! So come full autumn/ winter I can't wait to get out and about with the crunchy leaves 🍁 and frost in the air! Have just bought DD a thick pram suit that makes her look like a pink bunny! 😂🥰

YANBU - I ordered some maple leaf garlands today and can't wait for them to arrive. I love autumn - I'm one of those detested 'cosy' people and I don't care

I just want to light my fire!

I'm excited this year because I'm hoping the bastard seagull who wakes me every morning freezes his feathery nuts off. I know that's spiteful, but if you'd met him you'd get where I was coming from.

YANBU I bloody love autumn, frost, being able to sleep better.

My children hate crafts and baking.
Winter walks are more likely to be soggy and sludgey than crisp.
I need sunlight to thrive.

I like September and October, they can be stunningly beautiful and the good days always feep like a bonus, but November and January can just piss off. I could handle winter far better if we edited it from Bonfire Night to December to February and that would be enough winter to make me enjoy the relief of spring.

I tend to be cynical about autumn/ winter threads because the reality is that we get so little of the weather that people get all romantic over. I don't mind if the mud is actually frozen and we get a good hoare frost and some sledging, but it's not guarenteed every winter, and is fleeting if we get it.

Mommabear20, love my DDs in their thick pink snowsuits, little wellies and bobble hats. Gorgeous! A newborn to snuggle in winter is just bliss.

oh god i love autumn and winter!!

cannot wait to do all halloween and then christmas things,!! decorate the house so excited!!

I'm so excited! I've already put thick blankets in almost every room and I'm lighting the fire this evening for the first time in far too long. I've done my autumn clean and changed the bedding to brushed cotton. The halloween decorations went up in July. recently. So. Fricking. Excited.

Not looking forward to autumn/winter at all. Yes, I am looking forward to celebrating the birth of christ, but atm all I can see for the foreseeable future is dc with colds and coughs and potentially quite a few pcr tests in order to satisfy the school.

Early autumn is my favourite part of the year. We walk past a big conker tree in the park on the way to school so each year we collect loads of conkers there. I love the changing colours of the trees and bushes in the park, we’re just starting to notice it now. I don’t like it once the leaves start to fall and it rain, it just feels like a squelch fest until early Jan. I don’t mind winter mornings when it’s dry and crisp, luckily I don’t need to use my car until about 10am so I’m never really stuck de-icing it. I don’t like not being able to hang washing out in the winter, my back garden is north facing and mostly in shadow from lat Oct to mid Feb, but once we get to mid Feb the shadow decreases rapidly, you can almost see it week by week.

I bought a new bottle of baileys last weekend, looking forward to having it hot chocolate watching Strictly on Saturday nights in my fleecy pyjamas. In October I’ll bake some toffee apple muffins, Halloween treats and the Christmas cake. Hoping this year’s Oct half term isn’t a wash out like the two previous years and we can go pumpkin picking again. In November I’ll get a Christmas diffuser and then in early Dec we’ll decorate the living room. Once the DC break up we decorate the dining room all ready for Christmas. I enjoy all the Christmas activities, we’ve got the panto booked and we’ll go ice skating. Apart from DD’s birthday at the beg of Jan we tend to hunker down for Jan and early Feb. I always hope for snow over Feb half term, last year it came a little bit later but was glad we got to play in it but by then I’m ready for spring.

It's the best time of year because it's high mushroom season!

Not just edibles but just finding and looking at different varieties. And the excitement of finding and identifying one I've never seen before.

DP is very tolèrent and makes interested noises when I'm cooing over a mushroom of some kind

YANBU Op!
I'm the same! My favourite time of year is October - January (Halloween, cosy dark nights, hoodies, hot coffee, no sweat, no wasps, Christmas, my birthday - although I don't care as much about my birthday anymore these days haha). My son is 14 months old and I can't wait to do more things with him this year (last October he was still suffering from colic, then I spent November and December getting over the 4 months of colic lol)

I can't wait either :)

Such lovely and varied posts.. Thank you

@Cam2020

YANBU - I ordered some maple leaf garlands today and can't wait for them to arrive. I love autumn - I'm one of those detested 'cosy' people and I don't care

Ah that sounds lovely.. Cosy here too and you and I are right...lol.

Oh wow @SoloISland I love the sound of your winter!

Usually DD1 spends a whole weekend dressing our house for Christmas, and she's very artistic so does it very beautifully. But this year she's away at art school so I was starting to worry, but she promises she'll come home the first weekend in December to work her magic.

FFS I feel we just took the Christmas decorations down and they’re going up again? Urghhh… #grinch

Freezing, high energy costs, dark when I go to work and dark when I come home, presents, the inlaws (!)… NOOOOO

I love this time of year. We've just had a chat with friends about some traditional things we can do outside this year given that last year we couldn't even see each other half the time. We're going foraging, conkering, going to make decorations, bit of fossil hunting, find a Yule log, go out on a bit of a nature/bird walk, take flasks to the coast and have some brisk walks in the autumn wind, gusty fish and chips and ice cream on a chilly pier, carol singing round the village. All sorts. Determined to make the most of the bits I love : friends, nature, food, appreciating the simple things.

@ShowOfHands

Please can I come?!

I love autumn and (most of) winter (I do get fed up by mid Jan!) I even like the drizzly cloudy days. Big jumpers, changing leaves, drinking red wine in front of the fire, love it all. DH hates it so I tend to keep my excitement at the nights drawing in to myself, nice to have you lot to share it with :)

This has excited me also - is anyone willing to share their favourite Christmas Cake or Christmas Pudding recipes, please?

I hate it. It's already getting dark too early for my liking.

@rhowton

Winter is my favourite season by far. I can't wait for cold days with bright sunshine.

See, I wouldn’t mind if this actually happened. What we usually get is rain, damp and gloom. I hate it. The only bright side for me is that I won’t have the neighbour’s kids constantly up and down on their bikes or screaming in their gardens.

I work shifts and when I’m on early, it doesn’t get light till about 8am. On lates it’s dark by 4pm. So depressing. Also find it really hard to motivate myself to exercise or walk the dog in horrible cold, damp weather.