For some reason the tree we got this year made us all really sick. I don't if the problem was more sap or what, but there was definitely a problem. So, late Christmas night Todd looked at me with a look that said, "Can this thing please come down?" Being the sometimes-obliging person that I am, the next day I had stripped the tree of all its ornaments and put them all on our dining table, arranged by category. This new system actually worked pretty well. In no time at all everything was boxed up including all of the other decorations throughout the house. I was on a roll!
I have to say that I feel fairly liberated - I don't have this weight hanging over me - the impending dread that comes with the end of Christmas. I have left up the two Christmas trees that are our dining table decoration and the nativity scene. I have to have something to put away after the 1st!
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We got all of our stuff taken down today too. I usually do it the day after Christmas, but John persuaded me to wait a few more days. Actually, the outside stuff is still up, but I need John to do that for me before he goes back to work next week. It IS a good feeling isn't it? I like to start the new year with my home feeling clean and orderly!
Congrats on getting the decorations down! Since Emma was born, I have made myself get all the decorations down and put up before her birthday (which gives me 4 days b/c it's on Dec 30). I am trying to do everything I can to keep her from saying when she gets older that her birthday and Christmas was always combined!!
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