How did it get to be…

A month until Christmas?

I don’t have anything against it coming, it is just that I need to get my ‘rear in gear’ as one might say.  I did bring up some ‘wreaths’ from the basement to put up in their spots on the porch.  I don’t do outside lights, mainly because there not being a handy outlet when I first started putting up decorations years ago.  After a house remodel that issue was addressed, but I still don’t do lights.  I enjoy looking at everybody else’s.  And they are starting to come on.  Not that we are out often after dark, but last night we were and it was fun looking at how other people decorate the outside of their homes.

Inside, I have put up a couple of wreaths in their standard positions, one on the kitchen door and one in the bathroom.  Yeah, I’m a ball of fire!  I have a garland up in the dining room over the windows, but I can’t take create it for it.  I missed it last year when I was taking things down and it stayed up all through this past year.  I have plenty more I can bring up from the basement, but lazy.

What needs to be done?   Well if I’m honest, only what I feel like.  No one is coming here for Christmas, although we will host family on the 30th which still qualifies as the Christmas Season, so I guess more will happen.  I did find my Christmas banners for outside and at the moment I am happy with that and the wreaths.  Today the temperature is dropping and if we were to get some snow, all bets would be off on the amount of time it would take me to ‘decorate’.  Nothing like a little snow to make it feel like Christmas.

But for now, I’m going to be lazy and sit here with a cup of hot tea and a couple of doughnuts and maybe football.

As Scarlet said, “Tomorrow is another day.”

(These are from last year incase you are wondering.)

And the opening picture is also from last year.  One of our family traditions is making a gingerbread house…although we cheat and put graham crackers on a small box.  Try it!  All the fun of decorating with none of the frustration of the architectural problems of baking four perfect walls and two roof pieces.