It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas at our house

I always drag my heels a little when it’s time to put up the Christmas decorations at our house, but once I get started, I enjoy it a lot. And once it’s finished, I LOVE it! There’s just something about twinkly lights and candles and Christmas music and everything else that goes with our traditional celebrations of the most wonderful event in the history of the world. The birth of Jesus…the Reason for the season.

We don’t go all out at our house for Christmas, and in fact, there’ve been some years that I wouldn’t even have put the tree up if not for our kids’ insistence. It’s really not that I’m a Scrooge, but sometimes keeping it simple just seems…well, simpler.

One year my office got a little book-ish Christmas tree. I took it down before our grandkids arrived since we had a whole bunch of crawlers and toddlers that year, but I sure enjoyed it while it lasted.

Our tree gained a new ornament just last night, a gift sent from my writer friend, Steph, who knows how much I love globes. (I think this ornament will stay up year round somewhere in my house!)

Do you have your decorations up? How long do they stay up at your house? (They come down early at ours…usually the day after Christmas, but since our Christmas with our kids is the week between Christmas and New Years this year, I’ll leave them up until 2021.