(way too soon!)

Wow – okay – the good thing about Thanksgiving coming so early is that there are more weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas for holiday-type festivities.

The bad thing is we decorated on November 18th in order to have our house Christmas-ified in time for Thanksgiving Day!

Tabitha was bouncing and elated as Daddy’ unearthed her “Buddies.”  She’s enjoyed her friends for years now. 

I was so happy last year to see how much the older kids could help with assembling the tree.  I am happy to say that I am almost out of a job!!

 

I still had to do the lights (900 of them) and the garland.  I won’t whine on here about how they don’t make lights like they used to and how they are just JUNK these days and only last one year.  But they are junk and they only last one year.

The whole time they were decorating they kept saying to one another, “Wait until Hanny sees THIS!” and “Oh, Johanna is going to LOVE this!”  They couldn’t wait for her to get up from nap. 

Her reaction pleased them tremendously.

The kids put the second tree up in the basement, too.  Again, I put the lights and the garland on and we opted to wait until Monday to decorate that tree.  Actually – they did that one themselves, too.