Now that Halloween is over, it is officially Christmas time in the Shepherd family. Some might think Thanksgiving is the next major holiday, but that is merely a stepping stone on our way to Yuletide bliss. As soon as I left the house yesterday for lunch with some friends at the Wine Kitchen, Josh got down to work recruiting our children into his little Christmas minions. I had decided that we should at least wait until the second weekend in November to begin decorating, but Josh had other plans. He filled our three-year-old's head so full of Christmas wonder that I came home to, "Mommy, Santa is coming!" and "Where is our Christmas tree?" I don't have a heart of stone, so of course I had to give in. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to me, Josh's trunk was stockpiled with Christmas lights. Apparently Josh spends his lunch breaks perusing Home Depot for deals on lights and has been doing so for the past 3 months. Here is my proof....
So, as I write this entry, Josh has begun "fluffing" the first of our trees (no, that's not some weird gay joke, it just wasn't poofy enough,) boxes of ornaments have been resurrected from our basement and our poor confused toddler (who finally started to appreciate the glory of Halloween) is watching the "Monster Mash" on Youtube in the other room. Yes, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
Ohhhh now i see. When he dropped the boys off on Friday he commented on how a neighbor of mine had already started decorating. I thought he thought they were nuts, but really he must have thought "oh shit I'm behind".
ReplyDeleteYour poor children are also at the home of a woman completely in love with Christmas and pretty shortly will be turning my home into a winter wonderland and playing Christmas music non stop. Glad they are already on board the Christmas train.
So, we're listening to the "Sounds of the Season" station, which is playing Christmas music, and I have all of my Christmas shopping done, but I absolutely refuse to do any decorating until the day after Thanksgiving (but then it pretty much NEEDS to all be done that day, and while we watch the George C. Scott version of A Christmas Carol on repeat.). And see, you're right, the Shepherd Christmas season absolutely does set you all apart, because if I had a blog on our decorating for it, at least, then you just read it!
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