I’m not sure what came over me this year. I did something I have never done before. I broke a rule. Oh, I’ve broken rules, just not this one. Let me back up. About a month ago I was in shopping in Safeway when the yearly gloom came over me as I saw the Christmas things on the shelves. Oh not Christmas already, I thought. Maybe we could go somewhere sunny or how about a chalet up in the mountains. Any idea to escape Christmas. I know this is a bah humbug attitude but it’s not like I get pleasure in feeling this way. It’s just that every year I work so hard, like every other woman on the planet to make Christmas amazing for me and mine, and at the end of the season I am exhausted!
So I did it. I broke the unwritten rule that says you can’t “deck the halls” until after Thanksgiving. I decided if I got an earlier start on the process of Christmas I would enjoy it more and that would have a ripple effect to my family. Yesterday I drug out all of my holiday decor, lit the candles, and started singing, “…tis the season to be jolly fa la la la la la la la la!”
Some rules were meant to be broken.
You go girl! If it makes you feel better, I haven’t decorated yet, but I do have some presents wrapped and waiting in the basement.