Yes, I know it's early but I just wrapped my first Christmas presents. The radio is already playing Christmas music and the stores are full of Christmas stuff (since Halloween, actually, but who's counting).
I love the holiday season--like freaking, jump up and down, rush to watch A Christmas Carol and It's a Wonderful Life, make cookies and buy crap LOVE it. I come from a family of atheists (well, we have one ex-Catholic; we went temporarily wrong there) and all of us are NUTSO about Christmas & New Year's Eve. It's all my Mom's fault. She loves Christmas and has the skills to put Martha Stewart to shame. I love giving gifts, wrapping them up and putting them under the tree.
The problem with this year (among all the others, I mean) is that we are moving. Our new house is still being built and we just signed the papers to close the deal on selling the house we're in now. Assuming the deal goes through, we'll be on alert for when we can move in--they say Dec. 15th but I'm thinking that's way too optimistic. We might actually be moving on around Christmas Day. Hubby doesn't want me to put up our tree because we'd just have to take it down again. Plus, most of the Christmas stuff is in our storage space. *sigh* Maybe I'll buy one of those little potted ones and then plant it in the yard of the new house. I miss having all the tacky Christmas décor up in the house.
My 88 year old mom is having surgery in the beginning of December but says she will have my niece or me, or my sister (or all of us) help her put up her Christmas Extravaganza this year. I actually can't wait. Last time I visited, I asked if she really wanted to put out all of her nutcrackers (her collection, I think, is somewhere around 70). She said yes, of course, and my niece asked why. Mom's response?
So that's where my scifi-geek genes came from.
I know, tl:dr. ANYWAY.... Show me your holiday extravaganza! What is the holiday "way" in your home?
I love the holiday season--like freaking, jump up and down, rush to watch A Christmas Carol and It's a Wonderful Life, make cookies and buy crap LOVE it. I come from a family of atheists (well, we have one ex-Catholic; we went temporarily wrong there) and all of us are NUTSO about Christmas & New Year's Eve. It's all my Mom's fault. She loves Christmas and has the skills to put Martha Stewart to shame. I love giving gifts, wrapping them up and putting them under the tree.
The problem with this year (among all the others, I mean) is that we are moving. Our new house is still being built and we just signed the papers to close the deal on selling the house we're in now. Assuming the deal goes through, we'll be on alert for when we can move in--they say Dec. 15th but I'm thinking that's way too optimistic. We might actually be moving on around Christmas Day. Hubby doesn't want me to put up our tree because we'd just have to take it down again. Plus, most of the Christmas stuff is in our storage space. *sigh* Maybe I'll buy one of those little potted ones and then plant it in the yard of the new house. I miss having all the tacky Christmas décor up in the house.
My 88 year old mom is having surgery in the beginning of December but says she will have my niece or me, or my sister (or all of us) help her put up her Christmas Extravaganza this year. I actually can't wait. Last time I visited, I asked if she really wanted to put out all of her nutcrackers (her collection, I think, is somewhere around 70). She said yes, of course, and my niece asked why. Mom's response?
So that's where my scifi-geek genes came from.
I know, tl:dr. ANYWAY.... Show me your holiday extravaganza! What is the holiday "way" in your home?
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