We don’t like to rush through Christmas here, nor do we hurry along the close to the holiday season.
An Advent train – Daniel counts the boxes.
But at some point you have to put things away.
You must say goodbye to red bows, ribbons and Advent Calendars. Christmas dishes, mugs and even lights.
I have a Christmas notebook that I bought at Barnes and Noble several years ago. I use it to record decorations, recipes, gift ideas, and more. I have a section where the contents of all of our Christmas bins are detailed. For example, Bin 3 has Christmas party supplies, a small poinsettia plant (obviously not real) and an angel (also not real). I love having everything all organized. I can find what I’m looking for by flipping to the decorating section in my Christmas notebook and then tracking down the appropriate bin.
If only the rest of my house were so well ordered.
Sarah waves goodbye to Christmas.
Our Christmas tree, however, remains in its place of honor. Every morning, first thing, Tim comes down and turns on the Christmas lights. “It brings me joy,” he says.
How can I deny him holiday joy? It turns out the only reason, in years past, we used to pack up all of our Christmas adornments in a timely fashion is because we had a real tree. There weren’t enough needles to hold up the ornaments and the lights.
With a fake tree, we might still be celebrating Christmas in March. Anyone ever heard of a St. Patrick’s Day Tree?
I checked the official blog records (aka our archives) and it looks like we didn’t pack up the tree until January 20th last year. I’m obviously rushing things this year.
Just don’t call me Mrs. Grinch!
Kathy
Project 366 – Day 12
I hate putting away Christmas stuff. Not that I want it to be up all year. I think I’m just lazy and wish it would all crawl into the right boxes on its own and climb into the closet while I’m asleep on the coach one day.
But the photo of your daughter…did you colorize that? Or is she sick? Or are you a photo genius? Or is my computer monitor on the fritz?
cool special effect in that picture of Sarah
I was just walking through the house yesterday saying maybe I should, you know, pack up Christmas.
My husbands answers with, “Ya think?”
Maybe we should set an official undo Christmas day?
Cute blog, dear Katherine. I miss our tree but also like the cleanliness of the living room.
I LOVE you. AK
I love to put and have it all up for the holidays but usually by January 2 nd I am ready to start putting away, cleaning and organizing my house to get ready for spring
I’m glad to hear you don’t ACTUALLY have an angel trapped in Christmas bin 3. That just wouldn’t be good.
I really don’t likehaving Christmas lights or Christmas tree lights on after Christmas (or at least New Year’s). I love all the Christmasy stuff, but I also like the cleanness January brings.
Okay, now I don’t feel so bad. We just put our Christmas stuff back in the boxes on Thursday. Of course, the boxes are still sitting on our living room floor!!!
ROFL…you realize I had my stuff down before New Years?
LOL. I’m not sure when you put up your tree, but we put our Christmas things up the day after Thanksgiving so by New Year’s Day I’m ready for the visual clutter to go away (LOL).
I’ve never heard of a St. Pat’s tree, but my MIL is turning her Victorian tree in her living room into a Valentine’s tree. :^)
She used to have a huge artificial tree in the game room that was a bear to take down. One year she decided to just leave it up – she removed and added decorations to suit the season – Valentine’s stuff, Easter eggs and bunnies, flowers for spring, etc.
She’s crazy, that MIL. :^)