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Monday, January 7, 2013
the holidays are officially over
When Christmas is over and it's time to start thinking about taking down all the decorations, I get a little sad. Christmas is absolutely my favorite time of year. I love twinkling lights, all of my lighted houses and our great, big tree. It makes dealing with the transition between the warm days and cool nights of fall to the all day snow and cold of winter a little easier. Each time I open a bucket filled with decorations or look at an ornament as I hang it on the tree it's like seeing an old friend again. Each ornament has a different memory that goes along with it and all the new ones that get added in every year get me excited to see them again the next. As I have sat in my living room last week I kept thinking that the time to take everything down and pack it all away was quickly creeping up and so Saturday morning, it started. I don't want to be "that person" who has their tree lit in their living room window until February. It may be too cold to take the lights down from the house but they won't be turned on at night any more very soon. As I was attempting to drink my coffee without spilling all over the toddler climbing up and down off my lap, I decided that I should be productive and start maybe taking the ornaments off the tree. That quickly turned in to me barreling full force towards the take-down and re-packing of all our Christmas decorations. It was just that time, time to say good-bye to all my pretty twinkling lights and smiling snowmen for another year and hunker down to ride out the rest of the winter. If the last week with Harper thinking that she needs to start her terrible 2's at only 1 1/2 is any indication of how our winter is going to go...I may need to start leaving the tree up all year round!
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