I don't remember when or why I began decorating so early for Christmas. I draw the line at starting before Thanksgiving, but anytime after the dishes have been washed and the leftovers put away is fair game. This year my younger daughter and I spread the work out between Friday and Saturday.
I'm not much of a "pack rat", but there are some things I have a hard time parting with, Christmas decorations being one of them. My dad hand painted our names on glass ornaments when I was a little girl. I still have one survivor. My mother was quite "crafty" and I treasure the tablecloth she made representing the "Twelve Days of Christmas". It's starting to look worn in places. I have many of the decorations my kids made over the years, though some of them stay in the boxes and don't get displayed anymore. Any sort of decorative container that a gift arrived in has been packed away to set out in following years.
Earlier this month we got some new flooring in a few areas of our home. It required moving lots of stuff around, so I took the opportunity to clean out. As we pulled out the boxes of Christmas decorations this weekend I realized I was still in clean-out mode. I'd recently made a plea in the church bulletin on behalf of our craft group asking for old decorations no longer being used. It was easy to sort through my decorations with a critical eye and move a number of them to a box for the church.
Perhaps someday I'll be able to put into practice the words of my favorite architect.
"Less is more".
- Kelly
- Making my way through the ups and downs of life, holding fast to my favorite Bible verse: "For we walk by faith, not by sight." ~2 Corinthians 5:7. I began blogging in earnest at Yahoo360 on October 24, 2005. (briefly using LiveJournal and blog-city prior to that) In June 2008 I moved to Blogger. I'm now at WordPress where I hope to remain.
3 comments:
I'm afraid that less is not more at Casa Pamel at Christmas... Christmas seems to throw up at my house.
I started the day before Thanksgiving by getting the boys to help me drage things in from the garage and down from the attic. (take the help when you can get it). The house was awash in Christmas cheer by Saturday night. :)
I also mailed the gifts I needed to send through the mail.
It was back to school today so no more free time, to speak of, until the 19th.
How lovely that you have some decorations created by your parents. I can't claim anything like that though we do have some really old glass baubels belonging to Husband dearest's grandmother. Sadly they are so fragile, they have become almost tissue like - breath on them too heavily and they turn to dust.
I finally downsized a couple of years ago. It took three moves in four years to make me see the sense of it.
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