Yes, this REALLY IS my big guy.Are you in the holiday spirit yet?
Are you ready for Christmas?
The decorations and all the fun,
or do you put it off til the last minute?
I always like to set up Thanksgiving night or at least the next day.
Winter gets so drab, cold and depressing, that I can't
wait to see it more festive.
I do not rush taking it down and prefer to keep it up thru
most of January, usually the last in our area to cave.
How about you?
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and yes, that is as excited as the boy gets , unless you are bringing a banana to share with him, then he gets downright animated :)
Well, don't tell Beejay but last Wednesday when I got out of work at 2:00 I started putting things out.
Normally they get put back up a few days after New Years. My thinking is, Thanksgiving starts the holiday season so the decorations can go up, and New Years means it's over so they have to come down.
We put up one string of star lights the week before.
I like the festive lights and decorations too. From the looks of our neighbor's houses we have a lot of catching up to do! Will probably get the rest of the stuff up this weekend.
Cute santa hat on that lizard!
Beejay put her tree up on Friday; three pieces, snap it together, plug it in and the lights are 'supposed' to go on. The top third and the bottom third of the tree lit up nicely...the middle was not cooperating. I check the lights and find that all of the bulbs in the center are burned out.
Saturday comes and out I go to find a new tree. Are you kidding me...I finally find a string of lights in my box of 400,000 strings of lights that works. I put it on the tree and proceed to hang the ornaments. Tree is up!
I decorate the house with some of the stuff I can find...seems I'm missing some ornaments and my mistletoe...
Okay, let's try the outside stuff...back to the lights...I find not one string that works...out they go....I check my solar lights...some work, some don't. So much for saving on the electric bill.
Lowe's here I come...I buy $93 worth of lights. Now to put them up...yeah, yeah...probably the 20th
the 20th of December or something...But still no MISTLETOE...will an old sock do?
Okay, I sound like 'bah, humbug,' but really I do like the holidays...when things work.
Now for the shopping part.........
See it even makes me stutter!!!! 'the 20th of December...." Good grief.
Since my divorce, I tended to be a bit a Christmas scrooge. I sent up my tree a week before Christmas and take it down a week after. This year, however, my girlfriend has different plans....
I'm still in bah-humbug mode. The commercials make me crabby. There is one for a hallmark ornament that counts down the minutes.... talk about pressure!
With people hungry and out of work, it feels wrong to want to bulk up on unnecessary items. We really need less, not more. I don't think it is just me? Even my youngest said he wouldn't be disappointed if I didn't set up the big tree.
I haven't put anything up for Christmas this year yet. I did have up lights and some stuff for Halloween. At times in the past, I have put up a pretty lavish display for Christmas. And some years, I just put up some lights and a few decorations.
Like kk, I haven't been in the mood, but I don't think it's related to the economy for me. I'm enjoying the decorations I see elsewhere, so maybe this year I'll just kick back and let others do the decorating.
PS, Lizardmom, that's a beautiful holiday pic of your boy. (I'm sorry, I've forgotten his name.) There is no way Charlie would ever sit still long enough. I tried it with my previous cat and got nowhere. I finally used Paint to draw in a hat on him for a holiday photo.
I am really quite excited for Christmas this year, but with a 4 year old at home it's not surprising. Everything is just so magical to her, so it's a lot of fun. We are by no mean overly lavish in anything, don't have the money to be even if we wanted to. It's the small things that make it wonderful, like a calendar that you open every day and find a little piece of chocolate. Taking a walk in the dark and the cold to look at other peoples Christmas lights and making paper wreaths using cut outs of the girls hands from construction paper. Oh my sounds like my Vit. D and St. Johns Wort supplements are working.. =)
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