I have one of those houses. One of the houses you have heard people ranting about. I have become one of those people. People who your Facebook friends are talking about. Yep. I have at least two different holiday decorations up at the same time. It's Thanksgiving on my mantle and Christmas on the other side of the room. My house is holiday-confused, and I am ok with that. HGTV was not calling to do a special on my decorating skills anyway.
It seems to me the "When Can You Decorate For Christmas Wars" started early this year. I also call them the "When Can You Listen To Christmas Music Wars." I say live and let decorate. I love Christmas music, but I have friends who listen to it all year. Really. I'm not exaggerating. Why do we have to be "Team Thanksgiving" or Team Christmas" at all? Can't we be both? I am over here waving the holiday truce flag.
I started putting up the Christmas tree before Thanksgiving a few years ago. We were traveling all during Thanksgiving, and it was my plan to come home to a twinkling Christmas tree. It just makes me happy, and it seemed to help in the chaos that is the 4 weeks between the 2 holidays. It was one less things to worry about.
I am a lover of all things Thanksgiving, and having my tree up does not make me less focused on being thankful. It makes me more thankful... for a tree that is already up.
I hope and pray you have a beautiful Thanksgiving. I hope you get to eat your favorite foods with your favorite people all around you. I hope you don't count calories or the number of desserts you eat. I hope you remember to be thankful on Thursday and every day. Even if it's not Thanksgiving! I guess if we can try to be thankful every day of the year, my crazy friends can listen to Christmas music all year, too.
In case you are concerned about my sad holiday decorating skills, I did a quick check before sitting down to write this, and I am fairly certain there's no remnant of Halloween still around. Unless real spiderwebs count.
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