And It’s Not Even December
Phase One of the Operation Christmas Preparation is complete – the tree is up. Not completely decorated, mind you, but it is out of the garage and up in the living room. We’ve unpacked about half of the holiday boxes and have a good number of ornaments on the tree.
Actually, this is the earliest we’ve had our tree up in years – I can’t remember the last time we put it up on Thanksgiving weekend. I’m feeling very accomplished after this weekend. We got a lot of cleaning and sorting done, and the holiday stuff should be done in a few days, then we’ll be able to put all of the boxes back in the garage and just enjoy the atmosphere.
We made hot cocoa tonight and watched a Christmas movie. Yay for us. We’ve made a commitment to really enjoy the holiday season this year, instead of getting all wrapped up in the commercialism and shopping craziness. It seems that our strategy is working. I know I feel a lot less stressed than I usually do as December first approaches.
Now to work on those cards….