Are they up? | Pad Patter 11.25

not yet. we are getting the house ready for them (i.e., Reed has to clean his room before i will get Davis to get the decorations out of the attic). also, furniture has to be rearranged in the living room for the tree so i am doing that too

 

Our decorations are slowly going up... we usually knock it all out in one afternoon, but this year is weird. Graham was only home from college Wednesday night through early this morning. We had thought we would do it together while he was here, but things were busier than we had anticipated. Both trees are up... we just decorated one (the travel tree with all of our souvenir ornaments), the other will probably wait until next weekend (unless we get the blizzard they've predicted... then we might decorate tomorrow if Clara doesn't have school).

 

Well, I thought we were going to get it done before Thanksgiving, but here it is Sunday and only the outside is done. On the positive side, I learned how to make a Hungarian nut roll this weekend and now have 8 of them in my freezer. We also had a birthday party for my daddy who turned 80 yesterday.

I am weird - I only like putting up the trees when it is daylight. I guess because I can see better than when it is evening. I hope to get them up this week. And I need to design our Christmas card - and take the family picture.

 

I asked hubby to bring them up today - or sometime this week so I can get them up. I'm hoping I will have everything decorated this week.

I'm jealous you have weather warm enough to still mow the lawn Jan. It has been frigid here! Bleh!

 

We still have our Thanksgiving decorations up. I love my plaid pumpkins so much that I want to enjoy them for a few more days. We usually put the Christmas decorations up about December 1st. The tree doesn't always make it up that early, but I have everything else in boxes on the top shelf of my big closet.

 

I am the scrooge according to my family. But, I hate dust and clutter. So we will pull the stuff out on Dec 1st. Not before! lol, plus it goes into the December Daily Book! hahah
We are going out of town for Christmas, and I didn't even want to put it up!

 

I don't decorate for Christmas until December. I was brought up with putting the tree up later in the month, then it stays up through Epiphany on January 6th.

 

We got the tree & inside decorations up on Friday, finished yesterday & then got the outside lights up today! All set!

 

Ours are up, but scaled down from past years. I did select a bag of decorations that I’m getting rid of (I have way too many!). They’ll stay up until New Year’s Day. DH wants them to stay up until until Presidents Day weekend. We did that one year and it drove me insane. I didn’t put up a tree the next year because I didn’t want that to happen again!

 

DH did the exterior illumination *except* for a small blue spruce we planted this spring. Our neighbor, whom we love, keeps joking about how small the spruce is. Yup, it's like 2 feet tall, but it'll grow! (We may have made the mistake of saying that we're looking forward to its shade...which won't hit our house for like 15 years! ) So I got a string of solar powered lights and wrapped them around the baby spruce. I can't wait for my neighbor to see them so I can say, "This is for you, buddy!"

And the solar powered lights came in a two-pack, so I put the other strand around our upstairs "catwalk". There was still a ton left, so I have it in a blue vase for a little color.

As for real interior decor...not yet. This weekend flew by in a flurry of laundry and just relaxing at home. I want to really go all-out with decorations this year because our family is coming and it's the first time they're visiting for Christmas. I want my nieces to love it here!