2014 Holiday Countdown Song: White Christmas by Bing Crosby

Moving to Las Vegas required a bit of a sacrifice that I am not sure that I am completely saddened by.

Living here in the desert, the odds of having an actual White Christmas are slim to none.

Two days ago, a couple of our local news outlets were reminiscing about the fact that in 2008, we had 3.5 inches of snow in central Las Vegas and about 8-10 inches in Henderson, where I live.

I remember that my kid got to play in the snow at his preschool for a few minutes.

He desperately wants it to snow. He wants to go sledding. And while I guess I can understand the enthusiasm because it is such a foreign concept to him, I find it hard to be that excited by the concept.

I’ve admitted before that one of the things I miss about living out here is that we don’t really have seasons; it tends to be murderously hot for about 6 months out of the year, wet and rainy for about three weeks sporadically throughout the year, and then five months of mild weather.

The window for winter, or rather the opportunity for a White Christmas here in Nevada is quite slim.

But I guess when you’re seven, you’re always hoping for a chance to have a Christmas be white.