What goes up, must come down.

I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas filled with all the joy and good cheer!  We had a fun and full Christmas with lots of different family gatherings and meetings with friends.  It’s always a good feeling to spread cheer and be merry with those you care about. It gives me all the warm and fuzzies.

But now that Christmas is over, I am itching to get all my decorations down!  We put up all our holiday decor the weekend of Thanksgiving and kept adding thing to the house (interior and exterior) every week.  Can’t help ourselves. Every year we add a few more things according to how we feel, so we end up storing more and more each Christmas.  It really adds to the whole experience of the holiday season I feel like when there are decorations all around you. We even have 2 Christmas trees, one for the kids upstairs (they can do whatever they want with it) and one downstairs that mommy and daddy primarily decorate and the kids sprinkle it with some of their handmade ornaments too.  I love soaking it all in every day. That is, until December 26.

When December 26 hits I am just ready to take things down, box it up, and put it all in the garage until Thanksgiving weekend of next year.  I know plenty of people leave it all up until New Years or even after, but I just feel like with Christmas once it’s over, it’s over. Time to go back to normal life.  I am not sure what it is, maybe it is the end of the year and start of the new year or because I have had the decorations up since November, or maybe I am just sick of looking at the same stuff?  Whatever it is I think it’s time!