And The Stockings Were Hung By The TV With Care...
Well, I did it. The house is all bedecked for Christmas! Last Sunday we had family over and we retrieved the boxes from the attic and set to making the house beautiful. Daniel decided it would be better if he "helped" us decorate the tree, so as fast as ornaments went on the tree, they came off the tree. Now, a week later, there is a noticable difference between the top half of the tree and the bottom half... the top has all the lights, beautifully strung and is dripping with ornaments. The bottom half of our poor tree has the lights hanging off the bottom branches and only about a third of the ornaments still hung. We're trying to learn to look with our eyes, not our hands (however it's going VERY slowly).
One thing I miss about our old house is not having a fireplace. Instead we have a big screen TV. Luckily, the aforementioned TV is in a custom built entertainment center that has built in shelves, and one of those shelves is directly above the TV. So, our snowmen (in Angel Hair "snow") sit nestled on the shelf and our "Noel" stocking hangers sit just in front of the Snowmen scene. I always have a hard time picking out which stockings to hang. Before I met my husband I ran across a fabulous sale at Target after the holidays, and I fell in love with a set of stockings. I happen to be one of these anal people that can't stand if the stockings don't match (not exactly match...just be the same style, fabric, color scheme, etc.). The easiest way to remedy that potential problem? Buy 7.
My family thought I was nuts. "Seven? What are YOU going to do with seven stockings???" OK. Maybe I went a little overboard, but I blame it on thinking ahead. I've always wanted a large family, and I knew that in the next few years or so I'd probably get married and start a family. My rational was that by buying seven my family would all have matching stockings and I would go crazy trying to match stockings I had bought 10 years before. Since there are only 3 of us so far I get to change which stockings are hung each year. It also comes in handy when we have company for Christmas morning!
Now if I were only that ambitious in the other areas in my life...
One thing I miss about our old house is not having a fireplace. Instead we have a big screen TV. Luckily, the aforementioned TV is in a custom built entertainment center that has built in shelves, and one of those shelves is directly above the TV. So, our snowmen (in Angel Hair "snow") sit nestled on the shelf and our "Noel" stocking hangers sit just in front of the Snowmen scene. I always have a hard time picking out which stockings to hang. Before I met my husband I ran across a fabulous sale at Target after the holidays, and I fell in love with a set of stockings. I happen to be one of these anal people that can't stand if the stockings don't match (not exactly match...just be the same style, fabric, color scheme, etc.). The easiest way to remedy that potential problem? Buy 7.
My family thought I was nuts. "Seven? What are YOU going to do with seven stockings???" OK. Maybe I went a little overboard, but I blame it on thinking ahead. I've always wanted a large family, and I knew that in the next few years or so I'd probably get married and start a family. My rational was that by buying seven my family would all have matching stockings and I would go crazy trying to match stockings I had bought 10 years before. Since there are only 3 of us so far I get to change which stockings are hung each year. It also comes in handy when we have company for Christmas morning!
Now if I were only that ambitious in the other areas in my life...
posted by Elizabeth at
1:31 PM
1 Comments:
Oooh! Good job thinking ahead. I think I'm going to copy you when all of the stores have their after Christmas sales.
:)
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