Katred~One year I had Bronchitis for over 2 weeks, right before Christmas, and the minute I got better I had to rush around to shop, wrap, etc. I refuse to go through that again, so early shopping/wrapping is a must for me now! I have dreams of perfect storage too, but to do that I do need to cut down my collection a bit and maybe, like HG said, have a little less makeup but more of what makes my heart flutter!
HG~I am so sorry about your back. I hope you feel better quickly. Amazing how much we actually need our backs!!! Hehehe.. Mine is still sore, but I am up all day long. I just have to sit a lot to rest it. I see the doctor next week. That was the first opening they had for me!
Almus~I completely understand what you are saying about being more excited about decorations. I am still that way after 19 1/2 years of marriage! Two years before I got married I finally bought my own full sized tree and put it up in my bedroom at my parents. While at college I just had a few decorations---there was never more for anything else! I loved buying decorations for it. When I got married and had my own home to decorate we used that tree for a few more years until getting another. Now we have yet another one and a smaller one in the family room. I buy decorations for the tree every year, love my creche which runs all across our long mantle, and every room in the house has some kind of ode to Christmas, with bells on the doors, lights in the windows, or snowglobes and silver trees and winter fairies by my computer here! All is festive! This is why I put them up early. Way too much fun to wait until 2 weeks before, which is what my parents did. Now I am rubbing off of them. They will start this weekend!!
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! We are celebrating my birthday today, too, so in a few minutes time to go down, eat breakfast, watch the Macy's Parade and see what I got as a present from my hubby!
