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It's Begining to Look A Lot Like Chirstmas!

12/10/2009

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Another tradition we have is to decorate the house for Christmas the weekend after Thanksgiving.  Now, I must say, I LOVE decorating for Christmas, heck, I just LOVE Christmas, but what I don't love is the mass chaos that happens in our house on 'decorating' night.  Hubby likes to bring ALL the Christmas boxes into the living room all at one time, and the kids like to empty the boxes with no regard to where things should be placed, they just pull things out and put it in the nearest clearing - that could be the floor, a chair, an end table, the dog, they aren't particular, their ultimate goal is to get it out of the box!  This is the moment I sneak away to the kitchen and open a nice bottle of wine. (And NO, I don't care what time it is, 9AM here - that means it is 6PM in Texas, so I am good, plus, it makes my family not hate me on this insane day,  so don’t judge me! ;-)  You see if it were up to me, I would take out one box at a time, one item at a time and put things in the perfect place upon unwrapping, but it is not up to me & this is what my house looks like on D-Day. (DECORATION DAY.)
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I know they are all cute, but look at all those boxes!!
Everyone has a Christmas tree for their room.....
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Girl decorating her tree.
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Boy 2 with his tree
I do love this day even though the chaos stresses me out a little a little at first, but I have learn over the years to just give in and let everyone have fun, and decorate to their little heart's content.  The kids and Hubby decorate everything, including the tree. Then come Monday when Hubby is back at work, and the kids are back at school, I go through and fix it all, while no one is the wiser.  (OK, maybe they figured it out, but they don't say anything when they come home and everything has been changed.) 
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Boy 2 being silly!
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There are 2 things I LOVE about this night. One is watching the kids have a ball (yes, chaos and all) and two is when Hubby unwraps the Christmas tree ornaments!  This is my favorite part of all.  Almost all our ornaments have special meaning and each time Hubby unwraps an ornament he tells the small story behind it.....we got that one in Aruba (a starfish painted like Santa) oh, this was from our wedding (a car with a bride and groom in it), and this one was from when Girl was born....and so on.  The ornaments that got the most questions this year were the 'family' ornaments, the ornaments that have our names on them.  Boy 2 didn't like the ornaments that would have Mom, Dad & Boy 1 - he would question why not everyone’s name was on the ornament.
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Girl's first grade ornament
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Boy 1's ornament from 2003
Merry Christmas!!
4 Comments
MIL
12/10/2009 10:49:11 pm

I love that hubby tells the story behind all the ornaments...I remember doing the re-arranging thing, I think it's a mother kinda thing. Merry Christimas, love the kid's trees!

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Melanie
12/10/2009 11:09:07 pm

SIL enjoy it while it lasts, this year the only one who had any interest in helping me decorate was C. Everyone else is too old and too busy to be interested. But C is making the season bright for this mom. Bahumbug to all those scrooges out there.

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kathie
12/11/2009 01:03:39 am

Sweet! My 4 year old grandson and my 9 year old granddaughter helped me this year.

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katrina link
12/11/2009 02:16:29 am

heyy nice blog love it

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