THANKSGIVING COMES FIRST!
Here's the thing. I wasn't the first person to think of this. I am just one of many who quietly shake their head at the Christmas music playing in the stores and the decorations being put up earlier and earlier each year. So here's a little reminder, folks:
Hell, I don't even know what I am going to be doing on Christmas this year, so let's give me a chance to breathe and figure out what to do with the holidays that precede it, shall we?
I'll admit, there's not too much more time to plan for Halloween. If you haven't gotten started there, well, time's a wastin'. I have cajoled DH to make an artsy-fartsy mobile out of a little bag of plastic movable skeletons that were on sale at the grocery store for TWO BUCKS. I help them up, said "YOU could do something really cute with these, don't you think?" And I threw them in the cart, along with a skeletal ghoul that was dressed in orange burlap and mossy hair. A great outside door ornament for $4.!
Hubs found a branch outside, and he cleaned up the skeletons, and he made a lovely mobile. It goes really well with the one I make several years ago, and with the paper mache vampire skull mask that hangs on the inside of the front door along with a wooden stake and a strand of garlic, and an electric pumpkin in the window, I think we're all set. I bought candy, but didn't go so overboard as I did last year. And since it's supposed to rain, I think we'll be covered.
As for decorating for Thanksgiving, I do have a wreath that I made with leaves I gathered one year, then soaked them in glycerin. Then I warm glued them to a straw wreath that I got at Michael's. The leaves lost all their bright orange and yellow colors and with time turned brown instead, but the wreath still looks good; AND it's not crispy. It's holding up well, so that goes up every year. Along with some other things I've collected that I can't even think of right now.
That's one of the things I love about decorating for the holidays. There's always a surprise or two within every box. And if you take care of your things - wrap them really well and put them up each year, you'll have them for years and years to come. They become heirlooms over time, as well as treasured memories.
Back to my point. Let's not get a jump on Christmas. Let's take each holiday as it comes. How about we just take EACH day as it comes. That sounds very zen to me.
Good Night, TTYL and Be Well,
And a big shout out to Joanna and to Jim "Suldog" Sullivan for the graphic and the original idea - at least this year.
Hell, I don't even know what I am going to be doing on Christmas this year, so let's give me a chance to breathe and figure out what to do with the holidays that precede it, shall we?
I'll admit, there's not too much more time to plan for Halloween. If you haven't gotten started there, well, time's a wastin'. I have cajoled DH to make an artsy-fartsy mobile out of a little bag of plastic movable skeletons that were on sale at the grocery store for TWO BUCKS. I help them up, said "YOU could do something really cute with these, don't you think?" And I threw them in the cart, along with a skeletal ghoul that was dressed in orange burlap and mossy hair. A great outside door ornament for $4.!
Hubs found a branch outside, and he cleaned up the skeletons, and he made a lovely mobile. It goes really well with the one I make several years ago, and with the paper mache vampire skull mask that hangs on the inside of the front door along with a wooden stake and a strand of garlic, and an electric pumpkin in the window, I think we're all set. I bought candy, but didn't go so overboard as I did last year. And since it's supposed to rain, I think we'll be covered.
As for decorating for Thanksgiving, I do have a wreath that I made with leaves I gathered one year, then soaked them in glycerin. Then I warm glued them to a straw wreath that I got at Michael's. The leaves lost all their bright orange and yellow colors and with time turned brown instead, but the wreath still looks good; AND it's not crispy. It's holding up well, so that goes up every year. Along with some other things I've collected that I can't even think of right now.
That's one of the things I love about decorating for the holidays. There's always a surprise or two within every box. And if you take care of your things - wrap them really well and put them up each year, you'll have them for years and years to come. They become heirlooms over time, as well as treasured memories.
Back to my point. Let's not get a jump on Christmas. Let's take each holiday as it comes. How about we just take EACH day as it comes. That sounds very zen to me.
Good Night, TTYL and Be Well,
And a big shout out to Joanna and to Jim "Suldog" Sullivan for the graphic and the original idea - at least this year.
I do know what your post is about! The holidays are rushing by. Too fast. I agree Thanksgiving First
ReplyDeleteFrom your mouth to the retailers' ears. I was horrified at the sight of Christmas decorations at the beginning of September.
ReplyDeleteKim and Sandra, September? really? It must be the weather - once it gets the littlest bit chilly, people start jumping ahead talking about Winter. Come on! Let's enjoy Fall first. But the RETAILERS - Gah! It's all $$$$ dancing in their heads. I exchange very few gifts anymore. I've whittled it down to under five. Hubs and I don't even do it anymore, and I really don't care. There's only one income - so it's just an unnecessary drain. With kids, it's different. But I think you have to teach them how to give from their heart and from their talents as early as possible.
ReplyDeleteMacy's has the jump on TV ads. I am only going out in an hour, 5am, to hide in hall and when my caregiver from Kenya turns toward my apt.--slowly, then FASR race towars her shaking a vitamin bottle. Scared one to death last year! FUN!! Maybe I will go TP the lobby now.
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