(We didn't always decorate this early. A few years ago, we had a bad Halloween. The prior year, we had a TON of trick-or-treaters and ran out of candy. The "dark" year, we had 2 and gorged ourselves on 10 pounds of candy for MONTHS. I said "eff this" and decorated for Christmas. I still decorate for Halloween a month early.)
IT'S UP NOW!!! We took a few photos of Jack with the penguin tree. There are approximately 6 ornaments on the tree that aren't penguin related. This is not counting the "filler" red and silver balls. The tree is missing an entire box of ornaments that I deem too fragile for life with kitties (and probably with babies, too). Once the cats are old and Jack is maybe 18, I will put them back up. For now, they're lovingly wrapped in tissue paper and stored until I find the cats aren't assholes. Yeah, that's right. My cats are assholes-even the girl cat (under the tree in the top photo) because they like to chew and/or floss their teeth on the bottom branches. Penguin goes NUTS over the snowflakes so they can't be hung anywhere that he can see them. In their defense, last year's first tree was possessed and would randomly fall over on it's own, enticing the already curious cats to chew on things they're not allowed to eat. We invested in a better tree with a sturdier stand, so I don't think there would be as many casualties, but I don't want to take the risk. It's a good thing they're not wire chewers like Link was. Penguin did bite through a strand during his first Christmas with us and I think he got a good shock because he ignores the wires now. Thank god.
We did get the rest of Jack's 6 months photos back and there are way too many cute ones to go up here and I've posted them all on Facebook.
Playing with a giant ornament.
I'm not sure why this one is blurry. He has hold of the tree!
I can't wait until it's actually Christmas. I've already done a little bit of shopping for Jack and I know my mother-in-law is going INSANE for him. We're so excited! I'm glad that Todd is just as fanatical about Christmas as I am.
Now, before anyone gripes about me skipping over Thanksgiving, I have a penguin decoration that we call our Thanksgiving penkey because he looks like Tom Turkey to us. Also, how does one really decorate for Thanskgiving? I don't like turkeys and my house is already full of warm fall colors. Besides, what better way to enjoy the holidays than by being festive for two whole months??
Short version: I don't think you're insane. Christmas is awesome.
ReplyDeletetl;dr version: I love Christmas, but there are two problems: one, we don't have a tree, and two, we're going to see B's parents for Christmas and he doesn't see the point of getting one. Also there's not really much space for it. But I got all these "baby's first Christmas" ornaments, plus some collectible Barbie ones from when I was younger, plus many others that I've collected, and Christmas is my favorite! I always hold out until the day after Thanksgiving, but the tree stays up until...I think the record was May during my senior year of college. Good times.
Our friends' tree stayed up until July this year.
ReplyDeleteWe go to Todd's parents for Christmas every year. This is also part of the reason I decorate so early. I LOVE my tree and what use are all of my pretty ornaments if they just stay in a box?
Our tree is from either Home Depot or Lowes and cost $60. It's prelit (to which I add 3 more strands of red and white lights-not sure if you noticed, but I have a "thing" for red) and 6ft tall. It's got a nice metal base and despite looking a bit Charlie Brownish before any decorations go on, it turns out quite nicely.
NOT ALLOWED! :P Too early! :D
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