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I'm in such a holiday mood
D and I did some snazzing up of our guest quarters last night (I have a couple of out of town cousins we often put up over the holidays) then got our Christmas lights out to test and warm up indoors for a few days (they hang better that way). I think we're going to hang them Saturday. Now I'm sitting here at work listening to Bing Crosby and working on my holiday shopping list and trying to figure out what I'm bringing for Thanksgiving dishes. Lame, but there you have it.
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"As of page 2 this might be the most boring argument ever. It's making me long for Rape Day." - Mouse
Our lights and Christmas village are up. M mistook the neighbor's Diwali lights for Christmas decorations and begged us to put up "many lights in many, many colors!" How could we deny him?
We've been working on our Christmas cards each evening, as we usually try to mail them on the day after Thanksgiving. We watch Christmas movies/shows while writing them, and I've got my Christmas playlist going in the car and office.
We will wait on the tree and the rest of the decorations until after Thanksgiving, but we are seriously considering doing a tree in both NJ and VT.
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I am so farking excited for the holidays this year. I talked to my brother about our Thanksgiving plans this weekend. He and his family will be in town.
My H and I were originally going to go low key, but since they are coming, we are going big. My brother sounded so excited that we are doing a "real Thanksgiving," that I actually jumped up and down when I hung up the phone. I don't think I have ever been so excited to see my brother.
I am seriously restraining myself from putting up the Christmas decorations before Thanksgiving.
It confuses and dismays me that your Thanksgiving and Christmas get all wadded up together. They are separate holidays! TWO big events to be celebrated independantly.
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I kind of agree with that. However, our way (aka "the real way") makes it so that we have an entire month of holiday madness.
My only problem is that I like Thanksgiving to have autumn, earthy colors, while Christmas is glitzy, bright colors. It is really my inner interior designer that suffers.
Awww, Vinny. That's awesome. I'm also ridiculously excited to see my brother next week. Ahhhh!
We put up Christmas decorations last weekend. It makes the house feel so cozy! I'm one of those who like Thanksgiving/Christmas/New Years to be one giant mish mash of holiday wonderful-ness. And I waver between loving seeing my huge family at Thanksgiving and freaking out over figuring out cooking/eating.
The nerve!
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Thanks guys!
However, my excitement is tempered because of my in-laws (SIL and her family to be exact). I have been enjoying SIL lately, but you give her and her husband an inch, and they take a mile. All of this is for another post. I will not cluter the holiday squee with IL talk.
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Thanksgiving is totally sneaking up on me this year. Christimas too. I don't think I'm ready for it to be the holidays already! I think it's because our celebrations have shrunk from big family affairs to just me and Mr. Spiderman and my parents. My little sister is coming down for Thanksgiving this year, so that'll be a bit better. But it just doesn't feel like a celebration anymore.
I've always wanted to decorate a house with Christimas lights, but I'm not sure if I can convince Mr. Spiderman to do it this year or if I'll have to wait until next year. At the very least, I'll string some on the inside of the big picture window that faces the street.
I need to break out my recipe for cranberry bliss bars!
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Claire Elizabeth 12/31/2011
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I do not start getting excited for Christmas until after Thanksgiving. We put up our decorations about mid-December and take them down New Year's Day. I find if they're up too long, I stop noticing them, and they don't seem as special. Plus, I like to enjoy Thanksgiving as it's own discrete event.
Lorne's family (minus one brother) are all coming down this Saturday and I'm so excited. BIL and SIL and their daughter (4 month older than Will) will be staying with us for a couple days, then on Wednesday we'll all go up to Lorne's grandma's house and have a giant Thanksgiving up there. Then after Thanksgiving we're going up to Berkeley to watch the Huskies. I'm so excited for everything (even though the Huskies will probably get slaughtered by Cal). I am a little nervous about going to Berkeley and staying in a hotel with Will and not having him in a crib or pack & play. He's just too freaking big to fit in them anymore. I fear no one will sleep.
And then my mom and brother and niece are coming down the week before Christmas and we're going to go to the Grand Canyon and then spend Christmas at our place (Christmas Eve at Lorne's grandma's). We'll be at home for the first time since Will was born, so we're going to go nuts and get a giant tree. This is the first year he'll really understand what's going on, so Lorne and I are super excited.