Friday, December 27, 2024
10:28 pm
The week of Thanksgiving, I took out all my Christmas things. My fall things were already sitting out. Pulled them all out the first week of September.
For me, September 1st is the beginning of the best time of the year. Fall. Then Thanksgiving and Christmas. Now here it is, the day after the-day-after-Christmas and it has taken me two whole days to put away my best part of the year stuff. And when I say “stuff” – it is. So. Much. Stuff.
But this year I really got smart and have whittled it all down to one big tote. How? I passed much of my Christmas past along to my daughter and to the thrift store. I took down the little five-foot table-top pre-lit tree I talked myself into last year, leaving decorations intact, set it inside a big tote, then slid it into the back of the guestroom closet. The sentimental items I’d scattered around the house, candle rings, table toppers, things, things, things, went inside the drawers and cabinets upon which they had been sitting. The steeple church went on the floor behind the buffet and the manger scene and miniature choir singers have gone back in the glass china cabinet…until next year. There, that was easy.
I tell myself that next year I will not pull out all this stuff and all those things. But I probably will. Besides, there is Easter, Spring and Summer to talk myself into it.
Whoops! Forgot the Christmas dishes and favorite holiday cups! Also that stocking I always hang on a cabinet knob, says “Believe.” ♥
Keep heart,
ConnieLakeyMartin, Editor
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