We went over to a friend's house on Thursday for a Girl Scout meeting and I saw that she had her Christmas decorations up already. I started to give her a hard time about it, and then she told me how they are never home for Christmas, they are leaving to see family on the 19th, and that her kids are little and she wants her decorations up as long as possible so they can enjoy them. That rang home with me.
I thought about it more and more and how it applied to us. We never put our decorations up before Thanksgiving. On the years we come home on Saturday we may put them up the Sunday after Thanksgiving, but it's usually the weekend after and it's never long enough. For the first year in I don't know how long we actually had no plans the weekend before Thanksgiving so we decided to take the plunge.
We put the tree and inside decorations up on Saturday and were going to wait on the lights, but the weather can be unpredictable here (two years ago we never put our outside lights up because it was always freezing and snowy on the weekends and then it was too late) and yesterday was beautiful so yesterday afternoon Charlie, Andy and I took care of the outdoor lights while the girls rode their bikes. See, unpredictable.
As a result, I have a little less stress and we get ready to leave for Miami for Thanksgiving, and one less thing to worry about when I get back. I've got my Christmas cards ordered too, now just to write that letter...
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