I think the time from Thanksgiving to New Years is magical. It helps, in our house, that I married a Christmas junkie. Even with the knowledge that we'll be in Oregon for the last two weeks of December (yay!), we went out and got ourselves some holiday cheer in the form of a 3' tree. It is proudly decorated and displayed on our kitchen table. Good ol' Relief Society gave me the chance to make a few other decorations, so we're doing what we can here. Sadly, my advent calendar was left in Oregon, so for the first December of my life I am advent calendar-less :( But we'll bring it back with us after our holiday trip so we'll have it for next year.
It's kind of strange not having 20+ years of collected decorations at your disposal to put up around the house. But you have to start somewhere, I guess. And what we do have is about 4 solid days worth of Christmas music, which has been on pretty much non-stop since Thanksgiving. Time has been going by fast, and pretty soon we'll be on the road and off to see our families. I'm super excited!
Filled with new confidence after my apple pie turned out, I'm actually HOSTING a Christmas party next week- crazy, I know. I don't even like parties. But Christmas makes it different. So bring on the pies, desserts, and ugly Christmas sweaters- we're having a party.
Wish me luck!
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I'm impressed, Courtney! Apple pie, Christmas party...you're pretty much amazing!
I agree with Aubs! Impressive!
Dave and I were sitting and admiring my parents' christmas tree the other night and I mentioned how I liked that they have converted to using nice decorations instead of the mismatched ones that we always had while I was growing up. Dave disagreed, he said that he likes the mismatched ones, especially the home made ones because that makes a home feel more loving and homey. I reminded him that we wont have those for a few years, to which he replied, well maybe we should change our plan! If anyone asks us why we decided to have kids sooner, he'll respond that it was because he wanted home made Christmas decorations.
Hah! Nice Try Dave.
Anyway, Im so proud of you with your christmas-ness and I cant wait to do that next year when we are "newly weds" :) You are so cool :)
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