Tradition Or When You Can?
Well, it’s officially after Thanksgiving and I can morally feel okay about decorating for Christmas. I know some of you already have your Christmas stuff up and Thanksgiving and I can forgive you for that, but I’ve never even thought about bringing out the old Christmas tree before December 1st. Not because I don’t like to, but just because it feels weird.
So, today Kristin and I started the “Christmas decorations” talk and it looks like we might do some prep work today and ‘officially’ decorate tomorrow. Tree, house lights, stockings, the whole deal…. complete with hot chocolate and the movie ‘Elf’.
So what’s your decoration strategy? Do you have a set day that you do things? Any yearly traditions? Or is it just a ‘whenever you can talk dad into breaking out the ladder to go out in the cold and put up some lights’ kind of thing?
We don’t have a specific day that we do things but it’s always, always after Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving
I don’t know if everyone does this, and I don’t think we even do this every year, but I’ve heard of folks going around the Thanksgiving Dinner table and saying what they are thankful for. Now, I don’t think many folks are going to be doing much blog reading today, but I thought it’d be cool if we did that here.
So here’s the deal, up there is your awesome Thanksgiving meal complete with aluminum tray. Let’s take some time and list out the things that we are thankful for today.
Today I’m blown away at what an amazing family I have. Three healthy, awesome boys and an amazing wife that keeps me together. It’s been a crazy year and I’ve been gone most of the year and I don’t know how Kristin has kept things together at the house with the three crazies. I couldn’t be more thankful that I get to be home for a while, settle in and enjoy being with them.
Alright. Now it’s your turn. We’re all sitting around this table. Let me know what your thankful for today.
Ready? Go.
The Day After
Yesterday was great. A very low-key, relaxing Thanksgiving celebration. We went to Kristin’s dad’s house for the day, watched some football, ate more than we probably should have and watched the sugar affect the boys. This is the first ‘traditional’ Thanksgiving we have had since we have lived in Tennessee, so it was cool to be able to just hang out. Oh, yeah…. and this was awesome.
Today is the infamous ‘Black Friday’ and I wanted nothing to do with it. Going into Wal-Mart on a normal day stresses me out to the point of wanting to run out screaming, so the idea of waking up early and going into the cold with a bunch of angry shoppers is less than appealing to me. Kristin, however, was up at gone by six this morning. She loves the idea of finding a deal, and I love the idea of her finding the deals so it’s a great matchup.
So what about you? Do you do the whole ‘Black Friday’ thing? What’s the best deal you got today?
