Needing some Christmas cheer

I have been finding it hard to get into the christmas spirit this year. This is normally my favorite time of the year. We did get some snow. Which is very unusually for us, So the kids have been out of school for the last 3 days. Snow here normally turns to ice. The roads are to icy to go anywhere without a 4 wheel drive. I wish they would put down salt instead of the pea gravel they put down. I have currently off work until Jan 4. Gery's last work day is today until Jan 4 so he has the truck. It just hasn't seem much like christmas this year. We have yet to get our tree up. The kids don't seem to care. We are going to put it up tomorrow. Having 5 cats and 3 dogs in the house makes it hard to keep them out of the tree. We are planning a trip back to Utah on the 26th. Hopefully it warms up a bit the route we normally take is currently closed. If anything we can go through California. Just makes the trip a little longer of a drive. Both of our jobs have announced that we will be doing shut downs every quarter. My company will be doing a 3 week shut down and Gery's will be 1 week. At least we can claim unemployment. Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas.