Christmas in June

Walking up to school this morning, Owen said "I think it's going to be Christmas today, Mommy. I think Santa Claus is coming today." I'm not sure what prompted the comment, perhaps it was how the lights on the front of the school sparkled this morning. We arrived earlier than normal, since I had to be in Columbus at 10am for a customer meeting so the lights were still on outside the school. I told him that Christmas would not be coming until December, so I thought he might be holding his hopes too high if looking for Santa today.

Fast forward to lunchtime when I'm driving home after the meeting. I'm behind a blue pick-up filled with what appear to be garage sale finds. A sofa, a washer, lots of rope. And a three feet tall plastic Santa waving at me. The boy child was right. Santa came today, if only on a short disappearing stretch of highway in middle Georgia.