Today's Advent Calendar window.
I must get Handsome Son next time he's over, to bring down the Christmas decorations, such as they are, from the high shelf in the art closet.
I'll probably heap them around, interspersed with small dolls and animals. No tree. I'm not a fan of fake ones, and I'm deadly allergic to real cut ones in the house.
But it will be festive enough to suit them as will see it. I don't get much enthusiasm going till later in the month, in case you wondered at this downbeat plan!
This year I plan not to cut out stars. Nor weave them in paper. At least that's this morning's thinking. We'll see.
I haven’t decorated yet. We never do until Christmas week when the grandkids do it. We’ve yet to see if that can happen this year.
ReplyDeleteI usually drag in a potted Norfolk Island Pine that I decorate every year but it's just gotten too big. If I get a tree, it will be a tiny thing. And I sort of doubt I will. Oh, how I wish I were in Mexico where I could just enjoy everyone else's trees as I walk through town.
ReplyDeleteI have a potted Norfolk Island Pine, from the friend Karen I mentioned earlier. It's lovely, but way too delicate to hang anything from. The boughs just bend down with even a paper star in place. So I don't coopt her into the decorating.
DeleteI'll probably do a little drive around, nearby historic town of Cranbury often has lights everywhere and trees. Nearer the time, that is.
I'm a total scrooge, I don't do any decorating at all but then it's not really a holiday I subscribe to. though I do enjoy looking at other people's efforts. like you don't care for artificial trees and the real ones are all farmed now and shaped from birth into artificial cone shapes which I find just as unpleasant as the plastic ones.
ReplyDeleteI like lights, particularly white ones, but not those inflated figures of Santa and deer and so on. They look so forlorn.
DeleteI'm even more downbeat than you, I'm afraid, though I did get a fire lit under me yesterday and put together three sets of "12 Day's of Christmas" countdown gifts for our sons. One got mailed out today and two were delivered to two sons who live within a half hour or so of us. No Christmas decorating here the last two years, though. These things are in our garage attic and I'm remembering last year hubs had a bad knee and there was no way I was going to ask him to crawl around up there to find things, and this year, while knee surgery is behind him, crawling around on his knees just isn't something he should be doing. And I have no interest at all in climbing up on that attic. So maybe another year...
ReplyDeleteThis is all making me feel better when I read those people recording how they've decorated their third room, or the second tree is already for lighting. And there's a closet full of wrapped gifts..
DeleteI put up my decorations the first of december though this year I put on a limited number/amount because it is the cats first time with a tree in the living room. I enjoy it because each ornament is a good memory but I'm ready for everything to go back in a box by Dec 26.
ReplyDeleteI've always observed the 12 days of Christmas. It ends with Twelfth Night, January 6, so maybe that's part of my reluctance to decorate early.
DeleteFor the past few years I have been one of the reluctant ones when it comes to decorating and could quite cheerfully forego the entire ordeal, but Resident Chef likes to have the tree. He likes to leave it up into the first week of January too, whereas I would put the entire lot away on the 26th if I dared. Most nights neither of us remembers to even bother to plug the lights in so there it sits.
ReplyDeleteMy neighbor across the street hauled home a huge tree today, and a wreath, and has been busy putting up lights on the porch. I'm very happy about this because I get to enjoy it all without lifting a finger. She, like me, leaves her front door open, storm door closed, until night time, so I can see the lit tree blazing away in her living room. I don't have a tradition of lights, never got into it, so mine are quite modest little offerings. Mike will like them. He decorates with lights in his own apartment, and I gave him a bunch of glass baubles years ago because I wasn't using them, and he would.
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