This is Thanksgiving week here in the States, and on Thursday people will be gorging themselves silly on turkey, stuffing, and all the fixings. Some might watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade or a lot of football, if they don’t eat themselves into a food coma first. Most businesses and governmental agencies will be shut down.
In our household it means one thing – it is time to start decorating for Christmas.
This is when the wife shines. She is devoted to the Christmas season the way bibliophiles are devoted to books. She loves all things Christmas and has a whole room of the house only for Christmas decorations.
It’s amazing that I’ve been able to hold her back this long. I don’t believe in doing anything Christmas related until after Thanksgiving. I don’t make out my Christmas list until then, I don’t put up a tree util then, I don’t do anything until then. (I can hear Scrooge in the background saying ‘Bah, humbug!’) The wife stars thinking about Christmas at the end of August.
We have three trees set up. This is down from the seven we used to have in Texas. The wife was forced to downsize when we made our move this year. They are all standing, although one is a little wobbly. They are all lit with strands of lights. The third tree took a while to get the lights working but ultimately they are on.
The Christmas room is upstairs, but the wife can’t make it up and down the stairs. I ran up and down the stairs, going through the boxes in the Christmas room and calling down to the wife what each box held. She’d make a decision on if she needed the box and if so I’d run it down to her.
She’s able to swiftly sort through the contents of the box, decide which items she needed, which tree they’d go on, or where in the house they’d go if they were other types of decorations. It took far longer for me to run the boxes to her than it did for her to get the decorations up. She is a wizard at it.
We have one tree fully decorated. I think the second is also completed, or at least ninety percent (90 %) of the way there if it isn’t. The third tree will be completed in the next day or so.
We didn’t find the skirts that go under the trees. Either I missed them as I was going through the boxes, or they may be in one of the boxes in the other room upstairs. That’s one of the problems of moving – finding things that you used to know where they were. I’m sure they’ll turn up. We’re hoping the skirts will help stabilize the one tree and keep it from falling over.
The trees are looking great and I imagine that the rest of the house will soon follow.
Good job, Wife. High five.
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