The tree was up day after Thanksgiving. Why not? That way we can enjoy the pretty lights and colors for weeks. It’s just not worth all that hassle of digging everything out of storage, if its only going to be up for a few days or a week. If that was the case, then I may as well just take a photograph of my tree, blow it up to life size, and just put that out every year. So much easier!

One thing we did FINALLY add this year, were some hooks to hang the stockings by the fireplace! It sounds so simple, I know, yet three Christmas’s have gone by without getting around to doing it! This year it just HAD to happen with this being Max’s first Christmas. And so it did.