Just thinking ...
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Not till after dessert … Though I was an only child, my family had to build firm guidelines around when we could start decorating for Christmas. Not until after dessert on Thanksgiving! No decorations, no carols, no anything till after dessert (that includes loading the dishwasher, in case you're wondering).
This meant that, when Thanksgiving dinner was at our house, I could occasionally be found pulling out boxes of "Christmas stuff" while we still had company.
Now I'm an adult, with no rules or conditions on my celebration schedule. So I've been playing Christmas carols for several weeks now, and haunting the set of drawers used to sort presents: what do I have for whom and who is being left out and what can I go shopping for now?
Christmas choir rehearsals started several weeks ago, which gave me a legitimate excuse for starting before Thanksgiving. The program will be both services on the first Sunday in December, which only gives us a few more times to practice—such FUN!
But next week is Thanksgiving week, and I can start cranking into gear! Monday Brittany (high school sophomore friend) and I will put up my outside lights, although I won't start lighting them till Thanksgiving night. Friday I will get my tree (I'd do it sooner, but the lots aren't open till the day after Thanksgiving!). And, if I can find some gift wrap with a Christian message, I'll start wrapping and tagging over the next week, also.
Ah, such fun! When I was small, we came up with a "family word" for the feeling: christmastreeputtingup! And just think, when I see Jesus face to face, that feeling will put this one in the shade!
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