For years, I’ve been adamant about NOT starting Christmas festivities until after Thanksgiving. However, lately I’ve been re-thinking that. Today a Christmas commercial came on TV and my husband exclaimed, as he always does, “It’s too early!”
Well- yes. If all you have to do is sit back and wait for Christmas to appear, you can wait until after Thanksgiving. But if you’re the one, ahem, in charge of putting up all the decorations, sending all the cards, baking all the cookies, buying all the gifts, and wrapping all the gifts, then waiting until after Thanksgiving can be kind of stressful.
I’ve decided to treat the month of November as kind of a Thanksgiving-Christmas mashup. For example, this morning I drank my tea out of my Thanksgiving mug, but I added this delicious creamer:
I took down my orange lights- I usually leave them up through Thanksgiving, but they were starting to look kind of drab- and replaced them with white. Much brighter and happier!
And, of course I would NEVER wait until after Thanksgiving to drink out of the Starbucks holiday cups- that would be sheer insanity.
Ever since my son started college, we’ve been decorating the Christmas tree on Black Friday. This year, we may have a high school football game on Black Friday, and my son leaves on Saturday. This means we may have to decorate the tree on Thanksgiving. Or maybe even the day before! I’m totally on board with this.
How about you? Are you in Thanksgiving mode, Christmas mode, or both? (or, neither?)
Top photo was taken from Lisa’s blog. She spotted that decoration in her neighborhood!
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I have also changed my mind about waiting until after Thanksgiving to decorate. I kind of wanted to do it this weekend but ran out of time and energy. But next weekend it is happening! I like having the glow of the tree for a long stretch of time, especially with how dark it is at this time of year!
I forgot to turn off my xmas lights timer and they were on when I came home tonight. I debated keeping them on since now two other nearby houses are lit up too, but I’m trying to hold off. I do enjoy the pretty glow though! We shall see how long I can hold off 🙂
We always do the tree on Dec 1st, if we can, along with any other decorations. And no thanksgiving in Australia obviously, so right now we’re just in normal mode.